A culling programme has succeeded in protecting key areas of the Great Barrier Reef from voracious coral-eating starfish. Scientists who analysed the outcome say the effort should be expanded to ...

With too few tritons on the reef, crown-of-thorns starfish populations can explode, jeopardizing the living coral that makes up reefs. Covered with long, venomous spikes, the crown-of-thorns ...

A new study suggests that the removal of predatory fish such as sharks from coral reefs may be a key factor driving outbreaks ...

Environmental DNA, or eDNA, can help us detect species by the traces they leave behind in their surroundings. This groundbreaking tool is transforming ...

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 ...

The Great Barrier Reef experienced its sixth widespread coral bleaching event in nine years, the latest “summer snapshot” has ...

Dr Uthicke said they then settled on areas of coral rubble ... would eat juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish in aquariums, scientists went out on the reef and surveyed the crabs and CoTS present.

SYDNEY, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Australian scientists have reported the sixth mass coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef since 2016. In a report published on Wednesday night, scientists from ...