Spring breakers heading to Texas beaches may spot rare “blue dragons,” tiny ocean slugs with beautiful colors. But their sting can be painful, so admire from afar.

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 ...

Did you know sea urchins may live up to 200 years? There are many mysterious organisms in the world, and sea urchins are one of the most alluring. Little Thought, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Sea ...

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, ...

New research has uncovered a mass die-off of sea urchins living in the Canary Islands—one that could signal an ongoing marine pandemic. Reading time 3 minutes An apocalyptic serial killer of sea ...

The mass mortality event was documented in the Canary Islands Researchers now fear that the pattern observed in the Canary Islands mortality event will also emerge in other regions around the world, ...

During this dive, contact with a sea urchin causes an immediate injury. The incident happens quickly near the reef, where limited space and poor footing increase risk. Sea urchins rely on sharp spines ...

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 ...

That sharp jab may seem minor, but experts reveal the truth. Sea urchin stings can cause damage that lingers long after the pain fades. Samuel Alito sits out Supreme Court Trump case decision Honduras ...

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 ...