Small, hidden crabs may be the missing link influencing coral-eating starfish populations, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. While we know ...

Swimming crabs were observed eating juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish in aquarium experiments. (Supplied: Kennedy Wolfe)Dr Uthicke said the booms happened every 15-17 years, although scientists ...

Eating habits of baby predator starfish revealed ... Marine life, including fish, crabs, seahorses, and turtles, depend on coral as a food source, as well as for shelter.

They eat tons of mussels and sea urchins and crabs,” Campbell says. “When you take a predator out of an ecosystem, the populations they had been eating can grow much more quickly. That shifts ...

Have you ever seen a starfish eat a mussel? A starfish will drape itself over the mussel, ... Huddled between the rock crevices are starfish. Hermit crabs scurry between the rocks.

Often erroneously seen as docile or motionless, starfish are in fact voracious predators, Dr. Fraysse said, preying on sea urchins, crabs and, as Dr. Mah saw, even other starfish. “They control ...

On the seafloors of Antarctic basins, the water has warmed by just 0.27 degrees C — but that’s enough to allow giant king crabs to take over the ecosystem and eat everything they find. These ...