His book, Du Pain, Du Vins, Des Oursins (‘bread, wine, sea urchins’, but less lyrically titled Corsica: The Recipes in English) is an ode to the foods of this small, sparsely populated, wild land.

Sea urchins are sphere-shaped or flat creatures that live in the ocean and are completely covered in protective spines. On the tips of these spines are tiny claw-like pincers called pedicellariae ...

It’s Sea Otter Awareness Week, which means it’s a great time to learn about everyone’s favorite aquatic fluffball! And the first thing you “otter” know about sea otters is that they are ...

But as sunflower sea star populations waned from disease, sea urchins boomed — with populations seeing an estimated 10,000% increase in a reef surveyed off the coast of Oregon — consuming more ...

Since 2022, sea urchins have been plagued by a scuticociliate, a single-celled pathogen that eats away at the animals’ soft tissue and makes their spines fall off.

Long-spined sea urchins (Centrostephanus rodgersii) have invaded Tasmania and Victoria from their historical range in New South Wales. Where it occurs, this species dominates near-shore reefs to ...

Mounting evidence . This isn’t the first time Port Jackson sharks (Heterodontus portusjacksoni) and crested hornsharks (Heterodontus galeatus) have been known to eat sea urchins.. The first evidence ...

Sea otters are larger. On average, females will weigh up to 60 pounds, while males can reach around 90 pounds, according to the Ocean Conservancy . In some cases, males bulk up to 100 pounds.

I ENCLOSE a photograph which may interest your readers. It is one of a water-colour painting of a seaurchin, magnified 4 diameters, which has been reared in my laboratory by Dr. Cresswell Shearer.

Sea cucumbers are part of the echinoderm family, along with sea stars and sea urchins. They all share a common ancestor, but sea urchins don’t have the same saponin defense superpowers.

In the south of France, sea urchins are harvested from the Mediterranean and served as a culinary specialty. DW South Africa Posted: 31 March 2025 | Last updated: 31 March 2025 ...

In just a matter of months, they helped an international team figure out what's behind a population decline of sea urchins in the Caribbean: a tiny parasite. They join Deepa Fernandes to talk ...