Purple sea urchins, beware: There’s a purple urchin-eating predator on the horizon — and its name is the sunflower sea star. That’s the plot line coming from a small upstart research facility in Moss ...

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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Rebecca Vega Thurber, University of California, Santa Barbara (THE CONVERSATION) ...

Over the past few years, and again more recently, we have been hearing about a growing concern along our coastline. The once abundant kelp forests of Monterey Bay are thinning, shrinking or ...