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 ...

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

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 ...

When it comes to their neighbors in Norway, the good people of Denmark and Sweden have a limitless fount of jokes, many of which are reductive and in questionable taste; none of which should, under ...

The green sea urchin has a flair for decorating. Dozens of the prickly echinoderms could be seen inching across the surface of algae covered rocks at Perdido Pass, but no two looked alike. Each one ...

Building on a concept first introduced by the late Danish engineer Ture Wester, the designers have created a minimalist modular system that is lightweight and self-supporting, expansive, and yet ...

Last weekend, a lone, gray heart-shaped shell drifted ashore, nestling itself upon a beach in Cornwall, England. It was quickly joined by another—and then another. Before long, hundreds of these ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Sea urchins can be pretty intimidating to the uninitiated (picture a ...

Sea urchins are sphere-shaped or flat creatures that live in the ocean and are completely covered in protective spines. On the tips of these spines are tiny claw-like pincers called pedicellariae.‌ ...

The collector sea urchin looks like a pretty pincushion lying on the ocean floor, going about its business of munching on algae and seaweed. But when threatened, this sedate pincushion has a most ...