Ling Li, assistant professor in Virginia Tech's Department of Mechanical Engineering, has unlocked a mystery in the porous microstructures of sea urchin exoskeletons that could lead to the creation of ...

April 28 update: The team spent the last few weeks of the spring 2022 semester testing their prototype in the University of Colorado Boulder Rec Center pool. New video shows the underwater vacuum in ...

Ravenous, brainless and covered with spikes, sea urchins have evolved to not be messed with. Off of the south coast of Oregon, one kind of urchin in particular, the purple sea urchin, is enjoying an ...

With spikes as long as knitting needles, long-spined sea urchins may look like underwater villains, but their appetite for algae makes them the unsung heroes of Caribbean reefs. Courtesy of the ...

New research shows sea urchins have a brain-like nervous system. Neurons are spread across their bodies, with light-sensitive cells included. The findings challenge traditional views of brain ...

The federal government took a beating from both Republicans and Democrats in a hearing yesterday that considered the plight of sea urchins, charter boats and the hardworking man. The federal ...

Since last year, long-spined sea urchins in the Caribbean Sea have been dropping dead with no known cause. Now, scientists may finally have found the culprit. The species, called Diadema antillarum, ...

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 ...