A study by the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences and the University of Bonn has shown that pH value is ...

Sea urchins are dying across the Caribbean at a pace scientists say could rival a mass die-off that last occurred in 1983, alarming many who warn the trend could further decimate already frail coral ...

This is seafood at a scale most people never see—1,000 sea urchins cooked on the coast in Papua. You’ll watch how they’re ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image released by SOMM TV shows a sea urchin just harvested off the Channel Islands from the documentary "The Delicacy." Sea ...

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 ...

In Northern California, purple sea urchins are decimating kelp forests. Though the species of urchin causing problems may vary by region, the damage is the same. NNehring/iStock This article is from ...

Transgenic sea urchins are fluoresced to make it easier for researchers to track cell movement. (Sandy Huffaker / For The Times) Consider the sea urchin. Specifically, the painted urchin: Lytechinus ...

They're purple, spiky and voracious, and just off the West Coast, there are more of them than you can count. Purple sea urchins have exploded in recent years off California, covering the ocean floor ...

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 ...

Jon Holcomb had been diving for urchins for more than three decades, but he’d never seen a downturn like the one that started in 2013. The valuable red urchins that lived off the coast of northern ...

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 purple ...