A new study has found that nearly half the coral trout caught on the Great Barrier Reef come from marine reserves—where ...

Asterias, the common starfish of the East Coast ... Allen said that the crown-of-thorns are a natural part of the Great Barrier Reef ecology, but crown-of-thorns population explosions, known as ...

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 ...

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 ...

An aggregation of crown-of-thorns starfish feeding on a plate coral on the Great Barrier Reef A crown-of-thorns starfish feeding on a plate coral on the Great Barrier Reef Crown-of-thorns starfish ...

Researchers behind a new study have warned that the Great Barrier Reef has reached catastrophic coral bleaching levels.

The Great Barrier Reef ecosystem faces many pressures with ... water pollution and outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish. These pressures have huge effects on the coral reefs -- impacting the ...

On Wednesday, it was also confirmed that the Great Barrier Reef has suffered its worst summer on record, after cyclones, severe flooding, crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks, and a mass coral ...

The Great Barrier Reef, a global treasure and the largest coral reef system on Earth, has suffered its most widespread coral bleaching event ever recorded. Spanning over 344,000 square kilometers, the ...

The Great Barrier Reef is rare in that most of its threats come in the form ... Amongst other things it has catalysed the spawning cycles of Crown of Thorns Starfish (COTS). Traditionally COTS would ...

Search the images of the Great Barrier Reef and see if you can find Captain Barnacles, Kwazii and Peso as they try to find a way to hold back hungry swarms of coral eating starfish to save a new ...