Using only fins, divers wild-harvest abalone off eastern Australia’s coast. The marine snail, known for its beautiful ...

Inside, an experiment is playing out that gives a badly-needed boost to Northern California’s kelp forests — underwater cathedrals of green and gold that nearly vanished from the north coast a ...

Eventually, the team hopes for a return of these stars to Monterey Bay, where they can help maintain kelp forests, which are ...

Despite their consumption of the largest urchins, the sea otters alone could not control urchin populations. Sunflower stars play an integral role in these kelp forest communities by preying upon ...

To save kelp forests, scientists try breeding sea stars ... Urchins to Help Corals Resist Algae Invasion Watch a Colorful Sea Urchin Hitch a Ride on a Crab Watch a Colorful Sea Urchin Hitch ...

The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission has adopted changes to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) regulations ...

“It’s really been the commercial sea urchin diving community that has noticed so much kelp decline out of the Channel Islands.” Selkoe said that there used to be a vibrant kelp forest on the ...

Urchins however are readily consumed by sea otters (keystone species), and by keeping urchin numbers low, otters assure that the kelp forest community remains intact. Bottom-up forces influence ...

[CRAIG JOHNSON LUNGES TOWARDS ADE WITH AN URCHIN] You idiot ... For example, in some kelp forests off the coast of California, populations of sea otters thrive and eat sea urchins.

Giant kelp forests all look the same from the surface ... A big snail ambles by a sea urchin munching on the stem—or stipe—of Lessonia kelp at Isla de los Estados, Argentina.

A southern sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis) foraging on a purple sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) in Monterey Bay, California, USA. Image by Morgan Rector. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!