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 ...

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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 ...

Southern sea otters living along California’s coast are struggling in warmer seas, with new threats and changing food sources. They, like the other two sea otter subspecies, are classified as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: An international team of researchers led by marine biologist Periklis Paganos of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn in Naples, Italy, and molecular ...

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 ...