It’s a scene right out of a movie—the Santa Barbara mountains glowing in the background, a sign warning of great white sharks to our left ... Santa Barbara’s Sea Urchin Scene 04:30 Arriving at the ...

The turquoise water of Hōnaunau Bay in Hawaii, an area popular with snorkelers and divers, is teeming with spiny creatures that could erode the reef past the point of no return, new research has ...

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 ...

Sea urchin numbers here are exploding as the fish species that typically keep their populations in check decline due to overfishing, according to the study, published last month in the journal ...