Giant, spiky starfish have been eating away at the Great Barrier Reef for decades. Along with climate change, pollution, development and a slew of other issues, these starfish are among the many ...

The predatory, coral-eating Crown of Thorns starfish has returned to parts of Australia's world heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef, prompting a renewed government effort to kill the spiky marine ...

SOUTHAMPTON, UK — Starfish are known for their adorable and symmetrical arms that seem to hug everything they touch. But it turns out that they may not be hugs after all – because starfish, ...

A close-up photo of the common sunstar (Crossaster papposus), a starfish found in the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Photo: © Alexander Semenov Invertebrates ...

Scientists are always baffled when odd animals show up in unlikely places, especially without a logical explanation. That is exactly what’s occurring on Florida’s Space Coast, where the shore is ...

SANTA CRUZ >> For the past two years, a mysterious disease has melted millions of sea stars along the West Coast into goo. Consequences of the outbreak appear already at play as the sea star’s spiky ...

An infestation of predator starfish is decimating large tracts of coral reef throughout the Philippines. The spiny and toxic crown-of-thorns starfish are voracious predators that can wipe out large ...

Coral-eating crown of thorns starfish are seen on Swain Reef, part of the Great Barrier Reef, in this undated handout photo released December 5, 2018. Joint Field Management Program/Great Barrier Reef ...

DIVERS clutch wooden spears as they plunge beneath the waves, hunting hordes of hungry starfish destroying the coral reefs around the Cook Islands. These makeshift tools are their best weapons in the ...

These spiny starfish feed on coral tissue, leaving behind bleached and lifeless structures where once-thriving marine ...

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — The Alamea is a thorny, spiny, tough starfish in Samoa. “We have a saying in Samoan tradition, and it is, ‘E fofo le alamea le alamea,’ which translates as the spiny starfish ...