A sudden, unexplained mass die-off is decimating sea urchins around the world, including catastrophic losses in the Canary Islands. Key reef-grazing species are reaching historic lows, and their ...

Images of moribund D. africanum off Tenerife Island during the September 2022 mass mortality event: a) Moribund individual of D. africanum showing abnormal position and movement of the spines with ...

Shaina Sadai has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the Hitz Family Foundation. Ambarish Karmalkar receives funding from National Science Foundation. When polar ice sheets melt, ...

South Africa’s Woodlands Dairy Group has acquired Ladismith Cheese Company from Sea Harvest Group. Financial terms of the deal, which includes the Ladismith Cheese subsidiaries Ladismith Powder ...

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 ...

The pointy shell of sea urchins hides a remarkably complex neural network that resembles the brains of vertebrates, new research suggests. Reading time 2 minutes When it comes to taking hardcore ...

Sea urchins have a body that is entirely made up of "head"—with a surprisingly complex central nervous system that functions, in essence, like an "all-body brain." This is the conclusion of an ...

For years, Macklyn Cove was a land of the living dead. Located near Brookings along Oregon's south coast, the cove was once home to vast underwater kelp forests that supported species as small as ...

Springtide Seaweed, a seaweed harvester in the U.S. state of Maine, has debuted a new line of farmed sea urchin. Gouldsboro, Maine-based Springtide Seaweed was the creator of the Maine Seaweed ...