Ravenous, brainless and covered with spikes, sea urchins have evolved to not be messed with. Off of the south coast of Oregon, one kind of urchin in particular, the purple sea urchin, is enjoying an ...

Sea urchins receive a lot of attention in California. Red urchins support a thriving fishery, while their purple cousins are often blamed for mowing down kelp forests to create urchin barrens. Yet for ...

Sea urchins are sphere-shaped or flat creatures that live in the ocean and are completely covered in protective spines. On the tips of these spines are tiny claw-like pincers called pedicellariae.‌ ...

Sea urchins are one of the ocean's most bizarre creatures. In many species, their rotund bodies are covered in spikes, they exist at all sea depths, and their spines might even help treat bone ...

Sea urchin skeletons may owe some of their strength to a common geometric design. Urchin skeletons display “an incredible diversity of structures at the microscale, varying from fully ordered to ...

Dive into the fascinating underwater world and uncover the interactions between wolffish and sea urchins in this gripping exploration! Have you ever wondered if the wolffish wants to eat the sea ...

NEWPORT, Ore. — Tens of millions of voracious purple sea urchins that have already chomped their way through towering underwater kelp forests in California are spreading north to Oregon, sending the ...

Off the Northern California coast, there is a crisis beneath the waves. The kelp forest – seaweed that provided habitat and food for much of life in the ocean – is gone, wiped out by an exploding ...

Gouldsboro, Maine-based Springtide Seaweed was the creator of the Maine Seaweed Exchange in October 2017, which helped assist ...

Sea urchin preparation down in southern Italy, especially around Sicily and Apulia, is really a big deal. And I gotta say, it ...

The country’s first-ever festival dedicated to sea urchin, or more simply called uni in the culinary world, is taking place June 17th-19th in on the Mendocino Coast. As one of the biggest producers of ...