Restoring underwater kelp forests by culling overgrazing sea urchins would deliver significant financial benefits, a new ...

The turquoise water of Hōnaunau Bay in Hawaii, an area popular with snorkelers and divers, is teeming with spiny creatures ...

With its ability to grow to as big as three feet across, armed with up to 24 limbs covered with tiny suction tubes, the sunflower star is a purple urchin-eating machine. But Bank said the sunflower ...

Sea urchin stings aren’t usually fatal, but they are dangerous. You should be aware of the symptoms and treatments so you can get professional help if you need it. Symptoms.

The black sea urchin is critical to maintaining a healthy reef habitat. Without them, algae grow unchecked, choking off corals and compromising the delicate balance of the reef ecosystem.

3D visualization of sea urchin anatomy. created by Alexander Ziegler, Institut für Biologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany In cooperation with: Cornelius Faber, Experimentelle Physik V, ...

A sea-borne pandemic that wiped out sea urchin populations in the Red Sea has spread and is taking out the species in parts of the Indian Ocean and could go global, scientists in Israel say.

Consider the sea urchin. Specifically, the painted urchin: Lytechinus pictus, a prickly Ping-Pong ball from the eastern Pacific Ocean. The species is a smaller and shorter-spined cousin of the ...

Under the bright blue water of the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea, the view is stunning. Expansive coral reefs teeming with life; colorful fish and invertebrates. But something crucial has gone ...

That event had killed off 98% of the long-spined sea urchin population in the region, scientists said. The cause for the early '80s die-off has yet to be determined.

Sea Urchin Harvest is run out of Moruya, on the far south coast of NSW. (ABC South East NSW: James Tugwell) "You've got to have A-grade, really high-quality market produce.

With the sea urchin, the researchers found that the eggs emit a peptide that serves the same purpose as the signals in a computer system. Sperm continually react to such signals, seeking to ...