A diver demonstrates the painful consequences of stepping on a sea urchin, revealing how its sharp spines penetrate the skin and the challenges of removing them. The video highlights the importance of ...

Image via Depositphotos. Often called “sea cows,” Florida manatees inhabit the warm, shallow waters of the Everglades. As herbivores, they maintain healthy seagrass beds and aquatic vegetation, ...

More information: Kelly J. van Woesik et al, Scaling-up coral reef carbonate production: Sea-urchin bioerosion suppresses reef growth in Hawaiʻi, PLOS One (2025). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0324197 ...

The other quarterfinals: defending champion Auburn against Virginia, Florida against Texas and Oklahoma State against Oklahoma. The semifinals are Tuesday afternoon. The final is Wednesday afternoon.

Then a sea urchin in Mexico? Newsome called head coach Chris Malloy with the news about their star junior. “I think my exact words were. ‘Yeah, of course he did,’” Malloy said.

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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.

The urchin-rearing efforts share space with other projects run by the Florida Aquarium’s Conservation Campus. In one bright, spacious lab, rescued sea turtles with illnesses and injuries peer ...

The urchin rearing efforts share space with other projects run by The Florida Aquarium’s Conservation Campus. In one bright, spacious lab, rescued sea turtles with illnesses and injuries peer through ...

A sea-borne pandemic that wiped out sea urchin populations in the Red Sea has spread and is taking out the species in parts of the Indian Ocean and could go global, scientists in Israel say.

JESSICA MESZAROS, BYLINE: Isabella Ritchie is a Ph.D. student studying sea urchins at the University of South Florida. The spiky sea creatures are important, she says, because they eat the algae ...