A culling programme has succeeded in protecting key areas of the Great Barrier Reef from voracious coral-eating starfish.

which has devastated part of the Great Barrier Reef. Benjamin Mos, a marine scientist at the University of Queensland, said crowns-of-thorns starfish had an enormous appetite for hard coral and ...

wide starfish is an even greater menace to some of its tiny aquatic neighbors. It likes nothing better than to feed on the living coral reefs where it makes its home. Lately its appetite has ...

But the reef is under threat from a type of starfish that eats the coral which makes up the giant eco-system. It is known as the crown-of-thorns starfish. The Australian Institute of Marine ...

A new study has found that oceanographic connectivity (the movement and exchange of water between different parts of the ocean) is a key influence for fish abundance across the Western Indian Ocean ...

Professor Maria Byrne with student Matt Clements on a crown-of-thorns starfish survey. Research into one of the most persistent coral predators on the Great Barrier Reef has revealed a troubling ...

Why monitor reef fish? We're glad you asked!Reef fish are vital to the health of coral reefs. Over 1,500 fish species call the Great Barrier Reef ...

Coral reefs are often described as the rainforests ... Home to over 1,600 types of animals including fish, sponges, rays, starfish, mollusks, dolphins, whales, sharks, turtles, birds and more ...

At 25 feet deep, the Philippine Coral Reef tank is one of the deepest and largest indoor display of living coral in the world. Under the surface, hundreds of fish mingle with eels, anemones, starfish, ...