When Mya Breitbart heard that something was killing off sea urchins en masse, she thought: Oh no, not again. The long-spined sea urchin—a fist-size ball of black defensive spines—is a crucial and ...

The geoduck, pronounced gooey-duck and also called king clam, is the world’s largest burrowing bivalve, native to the Pacific Northwest and known for its long, somewhat phallic siphon as well as its ...

Beneath sea urchins’ exterior spines, rounded skeletons called tests are jewels of color, texture, and symmetry. There are hundreds of urchin species, and they’re found in every ocean on Earth, from ...

My longtime boyfriend and I broke up a few years ago. Since then, I’ve barely touched another body. I don’t know why, exactly. Maybe it was the pandemic, middle age, fear — or all three. I used to ...

If you’re lucky enough to have fresh sea urchin on hand and are wondering, “what now?”, this classic sea urchin spaghetti is your answer. Bring a large, heavy-bottomed pot of water to a boil over high ...

A blue groper eating a long-spined sea urchin fed to it by a diver. While it’s known that blue groper fish can eat long-spined sea urchins, the aim of this study was to reveal how often it happens in ...

Since last year, long-spined sea urchins in the Caribbean Sea have been dropping dead with no known cause. Now, scientists may finally have found the culprit. The species, called Diadema antillarum, ...

The turquoise water of Hōnaunau Bay in Hawaii, an area popular with snorkelers and divers, is teeming with spiny creatures that threaten to push the coral reef “past the point of recovery,” new ...

Pandemic killed off sea urchins in the Red Sea Linked to pathogen which kills fast and violently Sea urchins feed on algae that block out sun if unchecked Researchers warn pandemic heading towards ...

Purple sea urchins, beware: There’s a purple urchin-eating predator on the horizon — and its name is the sunflower sea star. That’s the plot line coming from a small upstart research facility in Moss ...