A recent study is shaking up our understanding of nervous systems in animals. The humble sea urchin, a marine creature ...

The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are now calling an “all-body brain,” with neurons that function as a ...

Everyone prepare to have your minds blown six ways to Sunday, because scientists have released another fascinating view of… sea urchins. This time around, they captured cross-sectional images of the ...

Sea urchins are small and spiny, they have no eyes and they eat kelp and algae. Still, the sea creature’s genome is remarkably similar to humans’ and may hold the key to preventing and curing several ...

Marine biologists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have created a line of sea urchins whose genetic makeup is fully mapped and can be edited to study human disease genes. The ...

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.

Thousands of sea urchins have mysteriously washed up dead on a French island in the Indian Ocean, leaving scientists perplexed. Around 5,000 urchins have washed up on the western side of Reunion ...

A team of scientists say they’ve figured out the cause of a devastating sea urchin die-off that occurred last year along the waters of the Caribbean Islands and Florida. The algae-eating sea urchins ...

Since last year, long-spined sea urchins in the Caribbean Sea have been dropping dead with no known cause. Now, scientists may finally have found the culprit. The species, called Diadema antillarum, ...