The sea urchin falls into this latter category. We're used to seeing this creature in tidal zones or coral reefs, a spine-covered ball wandering around feasting on seaweed. But before it becomes ...

A fossil sea urchin is the oldest of its kind, pushing back a fork in the sea urchin family tree by 10 million years. Researchers have uncovered a fossil sea urchin that pushes back a fork in its ...

But a new sequence of the California purple urchin's genome reveals that the marine creatures and humans bear a striking number of similarities. (See related news photo: "Sea Urchin Genome Decoded".) ...

the sea urchin’s odd eyes hold one last mystery – they seem to be built from the wrong parts. There are two major branches of the animal family tree and, until recently, it seemed that each ...

“They grow on trees,” said another waiter ... which refers to the flavors imparted by different areas of the sea. In the urchin’s case, flavor depends on the species and the seaweed it ...

We are told, for example, that: Interestingly, the sea urchin genome has orthologs for ... to watch divide—and a detailed evolutionary tree. But let me tell you a long story about sea urchins ...

The gold, sea urchin shaped nanoparticles are the key to ... who published their work on bio LEDs in the journal Nanoscale, hope that that trees treated with the gold nanoparticles would produce ...

(Photo by Michael Langhans) In 2019, researchers found a forest of bull kelp growing on a deep reef that had been a sea urchin barren the previous year. (Photo by Patrick Webster) A diver conducts a ...

The researchers estimate that since it broke out in December 2022, the epidemic has annihilated most of the sea urchin populations (of the species affected by the disease) in the Red Sea ...