For the first time in history, there are no new juvenile urchins being recruited across several Canary Islands,' a researcher said.

Sea urchins are disappearing from the Canary Islands, and scientists warn the loss could trigger major changes across marine ...

TL;DR• A mass die-off of sea urchins in the Canary Islands has led to a halt in reproduction, pointing to possible local ...

New research has uncovered a mass die-off of sea urchins living in the Canary Islands—one that could signal an ongoing marine pandemic.

From kelp forests to sea grass meadows, these charismatic predators are quietly holding parts of the coast together.

While coral reefs usually hog the spotlight when it comes to environmental disasters, a much quieter catastrophe is playing ...

Researchers have shown that a 2022-2023 mass mortality event has driven previously abundant populations of Diadema africanum sea urchins throughout the Canary Islands to near-extinction. This outbreak ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences retrieved 13 underwater monitoring structures from the deep reefs off the Pacific island of Guam, which have been gathering data there at depths up ...

As companies hunt for metals in the depths of the ocean, scientists are taking inventory of every species that lives there. Mining the deep sea involves a suction mechanisms that could disturb or ...

Southern sea otters living along California’s coast are struggling in warmer seas, with new threats and changing food sources. They, like the other two sea otter subspecies, are classified as ...

Trump proposal weakens the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and harms Florida sea turtles, manatees, and whales. Public has less than month to comment on critical endangered species list changes. Changes ...