A team of Dublin High School students recently invented a sea urchin-capturing submarine in attempts to help protect kelp forests threatened by the purple critter.

The sea urchin has long stood as an exemplary model for investigating embryogenesis and the intricate gene regulatory networks (GRNs) that dictate developmental processes. Studies in this field have ...

HONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach Newswire - 5 March 2026 - Sea urchin spines are not only for defence—they also act as natural sensors. A research team led by Prof. WANG Zuankai, Associate Vice ...

Consider the sea urchin. Specifically, the painted urchin: Lytechinus pictus, a prickly Ping-Pong ball from the eastern Pacific Ocean. The species is a smaller and shorter-spined cousin of the purple ...

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 ...

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 ...