Meet the crown-of-thorns starfish. But don t ever touch one. This huge, 18-inch-wide starfish comes covered in sharp venomous spines that can land you in the hospital if you tried to pick one up ...

A robot submarine able to hunt and kill the predatory crown-of-thorns starfish devastating the Great Barrier Reef was unveiled by Australian researchers on Friday.

Marine biologists have long warned about the high population density of coral-eating spiny starfish on the Great Barrier Reef. Crown-of-thorns starfish populations are again thriving along the ...

Crown-of-thorns starfish (taramea) being buried. Image courtesy of Konini Rongo. When the project began in 2020, the team even eschewed scuba gear and simply free-dove for the starfish.

Starfish, crown of thorns, and sea stars are bottom dwellers that live in the subtropics and tropics; human injury occurs from the spine and the venom injected from the spine.

Marine biologists have long been warning about the high density populations of the coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish on the Great Barrier Reef. But new research suggests they are surviving ...

Research into one of the most persistent coral predators on the Great Barrier Reef has revealed a troubling paradox in reef ecosystems: the crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) appears to thrive in the ...

Researchers have uncovered an under-the-sea phenomenon where coral-destroying crown-of-thorns starfish larvae have been feasting on blue-green algae bacteria known as "sea sawdust." ...

A BALLSY method of detecting baby crown-of-thorns starfish on the Great Barrier Reef has been devised by scientists.

The days of the crown-of-thorns starfish may be numbered if a robot designed to kill them passes muster. Researchers at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia have designed the ...

For example, in 2015 the Great Barrier Reef was home to anywhere between 4 and 12 million crown-of-thorns starfish. In one year, two crews working full-time were only able to eradicate 350,000.