Oregon has lost two-thirds of its kelp forests since 2010. Efforts to remove hundreds of thousands of purple urchins might ...

Committed to trying to fulfill his pregnant wife’s unusual food cravings, a man has been diving into the ocean to retrieve fish for her. Louis Davis and his wife Ash Davis live in Northland, New ...

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

A recent boom in the purple sea urchin population off the southern Oregon Coast appears to have had an indirect and negative impact on the gray whales that usually forage in the region, a new study ...

Sea urchin preparation down in southern Italy, especially around Sicily and Apulia, is really a big deal. And I gotta say, it ...

Sea urchins, belonging to the phylum Echinodermata, have emerged as an important source of bioactive compounds with diverse pharmacological properties. These marine organisms yield a variety of ...

Before 2013, divers on North America's west coast rarely saw purple sea urchins. The spiky animals, which are voracious kelp eaters, were a favorite food of the coast's iconic sunflower sea stars. The ...

Canadian researchers find higher concentrations of PFAS in sea otters near shipping routes and coastal cities.

Purple sea urchins, beware: There’s a purple urchin-eating predator on the horizon — and its name is the sunflower sea star. That’s the plot line coming from a small upstart research facility in Moss ...

MONTEREY — On a recent Saturday morning, scuba divers Keith Rootsaert and Dan Schwartz splashed into the ocean just east of Old Fisherman’s Wharf, the chilly water swallowing the sounds of Monterey ...