Someday, optical communications and high-speed computing might owe their success to a little ocean creature: the sea urchin. Materials scientists have fabricated a photonic crystal using a piece of ...

HIRONO, Iwate Prefecture--Sea urchin are a culinary delicacy, but because their shells are often seen as too difficult or costly to recycle, they end up getting tossed out in bulk. But a local potter ...

Local diver Tim Ball began harvesting sea urchins by hand in 2000, mostly selling them to the Japanese market where they are used in sushi and other foods. Now Ball is using the species for a product ...

A mountain of sea urchin shells, about 5000 specimens, was found in recent days by the Barracellare Company on the northern coast of Alghero. The echinoderms had been emptied, probably to obtain the ...

The pointy shell of sea urchins hides a remarkably complex neural network that resembles the brains of vertebrates, new research suggests.

As the weather turns colder, some of the most prized sea urchin in the world is being caught right now off the coast of B.C. The spiny creatures are treasured in Japan, where Canada will export much ...

Treading on the spiky shell of a sea urchin is a constant worry for even the most dauntless ocean swimmer. But while it is the long skin-puncturing spines which makes them so recognisable, they have ...

Sea urchins are globe-shaped creatures that live on the ocean floor. Many beachgoers have had the misfortune to feel a sting from their spines, but how much do you know about the lives of these ...

The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are now calling an “all-body brain,” with neurons that function as a ...