What does COTS stand for?

Crown-of-Thorns (starfish)

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They tracked populations of coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish and found that even low-intensity fishing of the starfish's predators enabled it to multiply significantly and destroy the reef.

A coral-ation

Crown-of-thorns no Johnny-come-lately The crown-of-thorns starfish made a big splash in the mid-1960s--and another in the early 1980s--when unusually large numbers of the species devastated live coral on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Crown-of-thorns no Johnny-come-lately