A new Electronic Dolphin robot can clean up oil spills using a sea urchin-inspired filter that pulls in oil while pushing water away.

Pupa U. P. A. Gilbert is in the Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA, and the Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, ...

Nature does it again! The natural world has a knack for giving us the blueprints for some useful technologies, and the humble sea urchin is the latest contributor. Scientists have designed a new class ...

Researchers led by Chen et al. have discovered that the spines of the sea urchin Diadema setosum generate measurable ...

In this video, someone appears to step directly onto a sea urchin with a bare foot, causing an instant shock reaction. The spines press into what looks like real skin, making it almost painful to ...

Adam Waugh, from Northumberland, says he feels "on top of the world" after his mammoth journey.

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Around the world, many conservationists are celebrating increases in sea turtle population growth. Cape Verde in West Africa now has 100 times as many loggerhead turtle nests each year as there were ...

The warming climate in polar regions may significantly disrupt ocean circulation patterns, a new study indicates. Scientists discovered that in the distant past, growing inflows of freshwater from ...