Native Hawaiian Tiger Cowries Eat Alien Invasive Species

Researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa's Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) have just discovered that the Hawaiian tiger cowrie (Leho-kiko in Hawaiian) is a voracious predator of alien sponges such as the Orange Keyhole sponge, which can overgrow native corals and has become a concern as it spread across...