Sea urchins look like an inanimate bundle of needles, but a closer look at these alien-like creatures reveals a surprisingly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Sea urchins are dying across the Caribbean at a pace scientists say could rival a mass die-off that last occurred in 1983, alarming many who warn the trend could further decimate already frail coral ...

It's very hard to kill a purple sea urchin. Starve it for years, and it will fall dormant on the ocean floor, devoid of any flesh — just an empty, spiky shell awaiting its next meal. They're like the ...

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

Thousands of sea urchins have mysteriously washed up dead on a French island in the Indian Ocean, leaving scientists perplexed. Around 5,000 urchins have washed up on the western side of Reunion ...