Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A red sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus franciscanus, near Becasses island. Joel Reyero/dpa Consider the sea urchin. Specifically, ...

Researchers grew juvenile sea urchins from Northern and Southern California in outdoor tanks at UCSC’s Long Marine Laboratory, where they could control the conditions in each tank. (Photo by Kate ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. — New research from Oregon State University (OSU) offers some insight into the factors behind the growing population of sea urchins along the Oregon coast, as well as a note of caution ...

Lobsters are widely accepted as the key predator of sea urchins, and this information has informed management strategies in NSW to control exploding sea urchin numbers that threaten temperate reefs.

Along the Monterey Peninsula, “urchin barrens” with no kelp (foreground) are interspersed with remnant patches of kelp forest (background). (Photo by Michael Langhans) In 2019, researchers found a ...

Green Sea Urchin (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis) A close up of a Green Urchin photographed while scuba diving in British Columbia, Canada. Often harvested for uni ...

From the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, rising water temperatures and more frequent heat waves are changing what’s found under the surface. In 2024, Advance Local ...

The weathered UC Davis Marine Laboratory looms in thick fog on the edge of the ocean near Bodega Bay. Inside, an experiment is playing out that gives a badly-needed boost to Northern California’s kelp ...

MONTEREY — On a recent Saturday morning, scuba divers Keith Rootsaert and Dan Schwartz splashed into the ocean just east of Old Fisherman’s Wharf, the chilly water swallowing the sounds of Monterey ...

In January, Tel Aviv University scientists at the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat noticed that in the span of just a few days, the entire population of the black sea urchins in ...

When Mya Breitbart heard that something was killing off sea urchins en masse, she thought: Oh no, not again. The long-spined sea urchin—a fist-size ball of black defensive spines—is a crucial and ...