A sudden, unexplained mass die-off is decimating sea urchins around the world, including catastrophic losses in the Canary ...

State regulators say kelp loss, climate impacts and booming purple urchins leave the iconic species too depleted to reopen the fishery.

For the first time, scientists have cryopreserved and revived the larvae of a sea star species. The breakthrough, made with ...

Also known as red lightning, the Transient Luminous Event (TLE) is associated with extremely intense thunderstorms, Space.com ...

Longyearbyen, Norway, and Ushuaia, Argentina, offer travelers the opportunity to see unspoiled landscapes, rare wildlife, and vast glacial ice—along with a spirit of endurance and camaraderie.

Young sea urchins spread neuron-rich tissue across their bodies. A new atlas shows complex neural and light sensing networks.

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WWF-Pakistan has clarified that the greenish hue and glowing lights observed at night in the coastal areas of Karachi and Balochistan, which had caused concern among fishermen and local residents, are ...

It used to be thought that sea urchins only had a primitive nervous system, but new research has found that they are far more complex than that. The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are ...

Biologists thought that marine heat waves lowered urchin reproduction only at lethal temperatures. A new study shows reproductive shutdown even earlier. Sea urchins are a key but often destructive ...