How Bay Area residents are helping to save the coast from purple sea urchins

The spiny creature has destroyed over 95% of the kelp forest along the North Coast. Locals are doing their part to help ...
AOL

Why This Diver Feeds Sea Urchins to Fish—And Saves the Reef

Green Sea Urchin (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis) A close up of a Green Urchin photographed while scuba diving in British Columbia, Canada. Often harvested for uni ...
Euronews

Greece clamps down on black market fishing as endangered sea urchins pushed towards extinction

The illegal smuggling of endangered sea urchins has reached "epidemic proportions" in Greece, as demand for luxury food fuels a lucrative black market. Recently, the Greek coastguard caught a ...
Mongabay

Peruvian fishers help red sea urchins recover from overfishing

For 20 years, fishers from the district of Marcona, on Peru’s southern coast, have been recovering populations of red sea urchin, thanks to an alliance with the government. According to a monitoring ...
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Continuing study: Tel Aviv University researchers identify the pathogen causing sea urchin mass mortalities in the Red Sea; The epidemic has spread to the Indian Ocean possess ...

Sea urchins are considered protectors of coral reefs. The researchers warn: This is a global pandemic – which might impact coral reefs all over the world. The Tel Aviv University research team that ...
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Neither squid nor dolphin: scientists discover a strange, small, purple sea creature that functions as if its entire body were a brain: they compare it to a large “living mind”

If your whole body worked like a brain, would anyone recognize you as intelligent? That is more than a sci-fi thought experiment now. It is the puzzle biologists are facing after a new study found ...