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Australian scientists sending robot after destructive starfish

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United Press International (UPI)

Publication Date
2015-09-03

BRISBANE, Australia, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Scientists say the invasion of the crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) is responsible for as much as 40 percent of the decline in coral cover among Australia's Greet Barrier Reefs. That's why researchers at the Queensland University of Technology have put a special agent on the job -- the COTSbot.

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