Crown-of-thorns starfish are large, spiny, and eat coral reefs and without enough natural predators to control their ...

Sharks have a branding problem. For many people, the word alone conjures images of horror: sleek predators stalking through ...

For decades, crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) have been rampaging out of control. These pizza-size sea stars are native to the ...

Around the world, coral reefs are under threat from rising ocean temperatures, deteriorating water conditions, and diseases like Stony Coral Tissue Loss (SCTLD). Since the 1970s, more than half of the ...

Star Wars" is unfolding on the Great Barrier Reef as operators rapidly respond to a new crown-of-thorns starfish outbreak off ...

More than Five tonns of corals breathe in Sheraton Maldives and Reefscapers' rare coral translocation project 's garden ...

Life is tough when you're a coral.To begin with, corals only reproduce over a few nights each year in a synchronised breeding ...

Sleep is essential for much of the animal kingdom. During the night, neuron and tissue repair mechanisms are activated to aid ...

Watching an octopus punch an annoying fish is hugely satisfying to frustrated humans. And other animals do the ...

Star wars” are erupting off Cairns with scientist racing to quell a growing outbreak of coral eating pests that could chew ...

Humans are making the world’s wildlife dangerously 'samey'. Some scientists have a word for this reshuffling of life: the ...

Armed with ox bile and household vinegar, researcher Adam Skerritt and a team of 10 divers are busy scoping coral reefs off the Cairns coast to stop an ecological time bomb before it explodes.