The team observed the coral eating Pelagia noctiluca jellyfish, or the mauve stinger, which is responsible for most of the painful stings people suffer while swimming in the Mediterranean.

Before the revival of rāhui, a loss of biodiversity was reflected in declining fish stocks in the waters of the Taiairapu Peninsula, along with a proliferation of coral-eating starfish and the ...

Crown-of-thorns starfish populations are again flourishing along the Great Barrier Reef. Symon Dworjanyn is a professor of marine ecology at Southern Cross university. "Crown-of-thorns starfish ...

Coral reefs are filled with colorful ocean life ... Almost 1/5th of the world's protein comes from seafood, with people eating on average almost 50 lbs per year. The US fishing industry supports ...

Where crown-of-thorn starfish are of concern, such as on the GBR, key sites can be targeted by fleets of boats with dive teams that are dedicated to killing the coral-eating starfish.

jeopardizing the living coral that makes up reefs. Covered with long, venomous spikes, the crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) is a voracious feeder that can eat living corals because of ...

This could change where current-dependent larvae of coral and coral-eating crown of thorns starfish end up. But our modeling shows these changes won't greatly affect upwellings over our time period.

In this musical special, the Octonauts must find a way to hold back hungry swarms of coral-eating starfish to save a new friend's fragile reef home. Preview: In this musical special, the Octonauts ...