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The twin had suffered shark bites on her hand and leg and was rushed to hospital to undergo emergency surgery. Once she was ...

For twin sisters Ellie and Lulu Gribbin, their lives would never be the same again after they were set upon by a bloodthirsty shark ...

The turquoise water of Hōnaunau Bay in Hawaii, an area popular with snorkelers and divers, is teeming with spiny creatures ...

With its ability to grow to as big as three feet across, armed with up to 24 limbs covered with tiny suction tubes, the sunflower star is a purple urchin-eating machine. But Bank said the sunflower ...

A painful and unexpected moment unfolds after getting pricked by a sea urchin while exploring the ocean. Majority of countries have ‘no confidence’ in Trump’s abilities: Pew poll Chicago Sky ...

Purple sea urchins, beware: There’s a purple urchin-eating predator on the horizon — and its name is the sunflower sea star.

An adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly Dally crawled into the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday morning, months after having a front flipper amputated at a Florida turtle hospital. The turtle was ...

The Florida Department of Transportation has completed a sea wall project along a 1.3-mile stretch of A1A in Flagler County, extending into Volusia County, to protect the area from hurricane ...

The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has ...

Beneath sea urchins’ exterior spines, rounded skeletons called tests are jewels of color, texture, and symmetry. There are hundreds of urchin species, and they’re found in every ocean on Earth ...