A simple dive turned into a painful experience fast. See the real underwater moment I hit a sea urchin and how I dealt with ...

Two pioneering studies by researchers from the School of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv ...

Biologists thought that marine heat waves lowered urchin reproduction only at lethal temperatures. A new study shows ...

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

I tested what really happens when a fake foot steps on a sea urchin to see how dangerous the spines are and how they react ...

Sea urchins may just look like a ball of spikes waiting to be stepped on at the tide pool, but there's much more to these ...

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

The sea urchins' body structure, which belong to the phylum Echinodermata (which also contains sea cucumbers and starfish), drastically changes from larva to adult. The scientists contend that this ...

In the cold waters off Schoodic, Gouldsboro’s Springtide Seaweed, the largest organic seaweed farm in the United States, is ...