Crown-of-thorns starfish can detect chemical cues in water (chemoreception), allowing them to respond to predators like the giant triton. The giant triton is one of the few natural predators of the ...

Shedd Aquarium is celebrating a significant conservation win. It’s the home of a newly hatched warty frogfish (Antennarius ...

A newstudy published in PLOS ONEwarns that Hawaiian coral reefs are facing a major ecological tipping point. Researchers from North Carolina State University and Arizona State University report that a ...

A study of 7000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: as sharks declined by 75% and fish preferred by humans became smaller, prey fish ...

A study led by Associate Professor Kelton McMahon at University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography has found that food webs on tropical reefs are more fragile than we once thought.

Crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) La Paz, Mexico© Jesus Cobaleda/Shutterstock.com If you’re able, watch this video. If not, allow me to explain. Two crown-of-thorns starfish are placed in ...