In our warming oceans, marine species are moving into new areas and "re-engineering" or often destroying those ecosystems, ...

Adorably fuzzy sea otters aren’t just cute. The marine mammals serve a crucial role, helping to restore the giant kelp ...

Just one 200-gram box of premium gonads can cost $100. In Japan, some sea urchins can sell for five times that. Sea urchins are one of the few seafoods still hand-harvested by divers today.

the sea urchins. When studying sea otters along the coastlines of islands in Southern California and British Columbia, scientists found that how quickly these forests grew back depended on their ...

researchers saw kelp forests return to areas that were destroyed by sea urchins. But how slow or fast they grew back depended on the location -- and until now, scientists didn't understand why.

SALEM, Ore. (KATU) — The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission has adopted changes to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) regulations concerning sea urchins, following a virtual ...