Gouldsboro, Maine-based Springtide Seaweed was the creator of the Maine Seaweed Exchange in October 2017, which helped assist ...

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 ...

South of Tampa Bay, in 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.

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 ...

My longtime boyfriend and I broke up a few years ago. Since then, I’ve barely touched another body. I don’t know why, exactly. Maybe it was the pandemic, middle age, fear — or all three. I used to ...

The turquoise water of Hōnaunau Bay in Hawaii, an area popular with snorkelers and divers, is teeming with spiny creatures that threaten to push the coral reef “past the point of recovery,” new ...