Olive Mullet reviews the book 'Adventures in Volcanoland' by Tamsin Mather in the latest Up and Down the River column ...

In this case, these are animals like the purple sea urchin, a spiky purple pincushion ... “If you look in the fossil record,” he told me, “one of the things that’s really remarkable ...

Beneath the waves along the North American West Coast, the Red Sea Urchin lives a life spanning ... the Tuatara holds a ...

While sea urchins may seem unremarkable at first glance, the red sea urchin can boast an impressive lifespan of ... Tuataras possess a unique “third eye” and are considered “living fossils,” ...

In addition to rough and polished diamonds, the collection included cuts of jet — the first time De Beers has used the fossilized wood in a high-jewelry ... necklace with carved emeralds that mimicked ...

while other sea urchin species were present in 30%. Similarly, pink snapper consumed very few long-spined urchins (2.7% of fish), yet other urchins were present in 13%. "This tells us it's likely ...

Ten years ago, fishermen in Taiwan dredged a jawbone from the seafloor. Now, scientists say it belonged to a Denisovan man.

However, when she looked down, she spotted the source of her pain. She'd stepped on a sea urchin, and there were multiple spines sticking out of her left foot, near the big toe. "I knew it was ...

"Twins! She has another baby," Judith Pardo-Pérez, a paleontologist at the University of Magallanes in Chile who first discovered the fossil in 2009, told Live Science, adding that she plans to ...

Beneath the towering Guadalupe Mountains of Texas lies a dramatic story of transformation. Once part of an ancient sea, the ...

Shaped like underwater organisms including corals, jellyfish, and even a bejeweled sea urchin (seen here), the light fixtures echo the natural motifs and fluid lines of the Art Nouveau movement.