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 ...

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

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

What you can see in this YouTube clip is very different from most of the underwater footage that you will come across online. It features a diver picking up sea urchins using a metal tool and breaking ...

What if one of the biggest threats to kelp forests could help bring them back to life?That question has helped a University ...

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 ...

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 ...