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I was curious, and found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown-of-thorns_starfish#Ecological_impact_on_reefs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown-of-thorns_s

by Tempest1981 10y ago

I was curious, and found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown-of-thorns_starfish#Ecological_impact_on_reefs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown-of-thorns_starfish#Ecolo... They are 25-30 cm starfish with up to 21 arms, and they damage the reefs. It does say that "warmer sea temperatures enhance larvae development", with this reference: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep08402 http://www.nature.com/articles/srep08402

cromulent 10y ago
This was interesting too: "An autonomous starfish-killing robot called COTSBot has been developed and as of September 2015 was close to being ready for trials on the Great Barrier Reef.[84] The COTSbot, which has a neural net-aided vision system, is designed to seek out crown-of-thorns starfish and give them a lethal injection of bile salts."