because they eat some many purple sea urchins and help keep their populations low.” Unfortunately, Lamb said, the sea star population has drastically declined in recently years, due to a ...

Two underwater sea lilies were eaten and regurgitated around 66 million years ago. They were preserved as fossilized vomit.

Just a few administrative details need to be worked out before kelp-killing purple sea urchins start getting hammered off the ...

Want to help California’s kelp forests? Eat sea urchins. Want to help California’s kelp forests? Eat sea urchins. To save kelp forests, scientists try breeding sea stars To save kelp forests ...

Despite their low numbers, sea otters consume voracious kelp-eating sea urchins at a high enough rate that kelp forests continue to persist and provide habitat for numerous species. Without sea ...

Considered a delicacy in several parts of the world, sea urchin, or uni in Japanese, is prized for its unique flavor. But the cost of the gonads — the orange tongues found inside an urchin ...

Sweet and briny, thick and juicy with a melt in your mouth texture, a slice of sea urchin on the wharf at St Helens on Tasmania’s east coast in Australia is a rare treat. Diver Cameron Mead ...

Sea urchins are regarded as a pest in Australian waters where they eat kelp and seagrass to create barren wastelands on the ocean floor. The problem is only expected to get worse with warming ...

Instead, they rely on their thick fur to keep warm and must eat 25% of their body weight in food every day. Their diets include sea urchins, crabs, mussels and clams. They can even use tools ...