The Canary Islands may represent the “missing link” in a global pandemic killing sea urchins. Sea urchins help build and maintain marine habitats in much the same way that large plant-eating animals ...

A strange disease has killed 99.7% of a type of sea urchin called Diadema africanum along Tenerife's coast in just three years. This pushes the species close to dying out locally in the Canary Islands ...

A sudden, unexplained mass die-off is decimating sea urchins around the world, including catastrophic losses in the Canary ...

Ecologically important Diadema africanum almost eliminated by unknown disease in Canary Islands ...

With their pointy spines, sea urchins are not warm and fuzzy marine animals that people want to snuggle up to. While they are ...

Sea urchins face extinction worldwide due to a deadly "pandemic" beneath the waves, warns new research. Scientists say the ...

Sea urchins are dying across the Caribbean at a pace scientists say could rival a mass die-off that last occurred in 1983, alarming many who warn the trend could further decimate already frail coral ...

The sea urchin is an invertebrate and the first example of a Deuterostome genome outside the chordates. The sea urchin fills a large evolutionary gap in sequenced genomes," said Weinstock. "It allows ...

A species of sea urchin is turning parts of the south-eastern Australian coast into barren wastelands, writes Kylie Andrews. Go snorkelling or diving off most of the coast of south-east Australia and ...

Most humans experience some growing pains, but, for a young sea urchin, growing up means turning yourself inside out. New research explores the key role a familiar substance, histamine, plays in this ...

Exactly how much human-generated carbon emissions the world’s oceans can soak up—and how this is done—is a question scientists are still pondering, but it’s accepted that the deepest seas can be an ...