Decomposition is essential to all ecosystems, both on land and in the ocean. In marine environments, decomposition and ...

Sea urchins may just look like a ball of spikes waiting to be stepped on at the tide pool, but there's much more to these barbed beasts than just roe and teeth. New research reveals sea urchin nervous ...

Sea urchins, which seem to spend their lives idly attached to undersea rocks, were considered simple creatures without eyes, ...

A weekend patrol by Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Police led to multiple citations after officers found a group harvesting large quantities of restricted sea life near Sekiu, the agency ...

The loss of one iconic species, sunflower sea stars, unleashed a voracious eater of seagrass habitats and upended the coastal ...

Research team: “This is an extremely violent global pandemic. The Caribbean, Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean are critical regions for the world’s coral reefs, and mortality rates for sea urchins in ...

You might have noticed that sea urchins sometimes make some interesting fashion choices, covering themselves with all sorts of odds and ends, and it turns out they have a lot of different reasons for ...