California's offshore seafloors have been missing a massive, colorful predator that keeps kelp-munching sea urchins in check.

Lacking natural predators and able to survive long after food sources are diminished, purple sea urchins are devastating kelp ...

Want to help California’s kelp forests? Eat sea urchins. Want to help California’s kelp forests? Eat sea urchins. To save kelp forests, scientists try breeding sea stars To save kelp forests ...

Now, the kelp is replaced by armies of purple sea urchins, a casualty of a vast kelp forest collapse that began in 2014. Fueled by a marine heat wave that year that scientists dubbed “the blob,” and ...

The porcupine urchin is simultaneously a threat to the Mediterranean and a vital part of the Gulf of Eilat's marine ecosystem ...

We zip through cypress groves, scour the horizon for the dragon-like exhales of gray whales, scuttle down rocks like crabs and then we find it: orange starfish in tight knots, pink boulders with ...

SAN FRANCISCO — For the last decade, California’s offshore seafloors have been missing a massive, colorful predator that ...

KANAGAWA--In Japan, researchers are feeding vegetables to hungry sea urchins - a popular sushi ingredient - to try and stop them from eating dwindling stocks of ocean seaweed. The country is ...

Golden Egg Sea Urchin (Uni) – right here in **Santa Barbara, California! 🌊🦀 Known for its rich, buttery texture and sweet briny flavor, Santa Barbara Uni is considered some of the best in the world.

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.

Lacking natural predators and able to survive long after food sources are diminished, purple sea urchins are devastating kelp forests, an important carbon sink. The founders of a Newport startup have ...