Starfish might have the coolest – and strangest – way of gobbling up a snack. I learned all about it from my friend Cori Kane. She studied coral reefs when she was a Ph.D. student at Washington State ...

Divers clutch wooden spears as they hunt hordes of hungry starfish destroying the coral reefs around the Cook Islands already weakened by climate change.

The discovery that coral-eating starfish are late risers and feed mostly at night could help slow the decline of the Great Barrier Reef and other shallow-water corals already ravaged by global warming ...