A silent global pandemic is causing a mass die-off of sea urchins. Discover the mystery pathogen threatening marine ...

Sea urchins are ecosystem engineers, the marine equivalent of mega-herbivores on land. By grazing and shredding seaweed and ...

What you can see in this YouTube clip is very different from most of the underwater footage that you will come across online. It features a diver picking up sea urchins using a metal tool and breaking ...

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

Researchers have shown that a 2022-2023 mass mortality event has driven previously abundant populations of Diadema africanum ...

The long-spined sea urchin (Diadema antillarum) is a key algae grazer in the Caribbean. A disease outbreak in the 1980s killed off most of the urchins, resulting in the overgrowth of many Caribbean ...

KUKI, Saitama >> In landlocked Saitama prefecture, a project will soon be underway to cultivate a delicacy of the ocean: sea urchin. The enterprise in the city of Kuki will use artificial seawater ...

A continuing study from Tel Aviv University has found that the deadly epidemic discovered last year, which has essentially wiped out Eilat's most abundant and ecologically significant sea urchins, has ...

A sea urchin is a study in contradictions: tenacious and spiky on the outside, vulnerable and velvety on the inside. With a beauty both fragile and fierce, it can burrow for decades into rock, but die ...