"They factor the fines into their costs and keep going." ...

Demand for sea urchins used in popular Mediterranean dishes is adding pressure to marine ecosystems near Naples. The problem ...

Sea urchin is moving up from the back roe. A delicacy long-prized in other areas of the globe, it’s now popping up on more and more menus in New York City, in everything from sandwiches to pizza. The ...

Along the Monterey Peninsula, “urchin barrens” with no kelp (foreground) are interspersed with remnant patches of kelp forest (background). (Photo by Michael Langhans) In 2019, researchers found a ...

Sea urchins are among the oldest living animals on earth. Thanks to their simple yet effective physiology, the prickly purple critters have survived since the planet was a primordial smorgasbord of ...

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 sea urchin is an invertebrate and the first example of a Deuterostome genome outside the chordates. The sea urchin fills a large evolutionary gap in sequenced genomes," said Weinstock. "It allows ...

The country’s first-ever festival dedicated to sea urchin, or more simply called uni in the culinary world, is taking place June 17th-19th in on the Mendocino Coast. As one of the biggest producers of ...