Students from Brickett Elementary got a special presentation Tuesday, sponsored by Friends of Lynn and Nahant Beach, from ...

Second-generation diver Ryan Morris has had to adapt his business as abalone numbers decline and a climate change-induced ...

These spiny or slimy ocean creatures display an astonishing diversity of appearances, behaviors and lifestyles—and many are ...

Scientific studies show that toxic chemicals from the spill continue to harm marine life, especially zooplankton like sea urchin larvae and copepods, threatening the broader ocean food web.

The larvae of long-spined Sea Urchin drift on a current south from New South Wales to waters in Tasmania. Due to warming climates and warmer waters, the species has taken hold, with the urchin ...

The table summarizes, for the three sea urchin species investigated, the impact of food availability and light exposure on each individual skeletal rod. From top down, it shows the phenotypic response ...

South of Tampa Bay, Florida, wedged between a quiet neighborhood and a mangrove forest, custom-designed aquariums are home to thousands of sea urchin larvae that tumble and drift through the water.

Over time, tiny dust particles and debris fall into the bowl, putting the larvae in danger ... love to feed on sea urchins, and in the absence of these predatory stars, urchin populations have ...

But longspined sea urchins are the most damaging so far. The waters along hundreds of kilometres of coastline have now warmed above a winter average of 12°C. This is the temperature at which urchin ...