Restoring underwater kelp forests by culling overgrazing sea urchins would deliver significant financial benefits, a new ...

By 10 a.m., the 10 judges whom organizer Jessica Silva (a Journal contributor) had asked to arrive by 9:30 a.m. were finally ...

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 ...

Historically, both sea otters and sunflower sea stars were present in kelp forests and can eat a lot of urchins. So while humans can play that predator role in some places, we’re not going to be ...

These masses of sea urchins eat kelp and seagrass, the loss of which is devastating to underwater ecosystems. The problem is increasing, with the long-spined sea urchin (Centrostephanus rodgersii) – ...

Our findings suggest the diversity of predators eating large sea urchins is broader than we thought — and that could prove to be good news for protecting our kelp forests.

Published: October 4, 2024 12:07am EDT Sea urchins feed on kelp. Nathan Knott Eastern rock lobsters are thought to be major urchin predators. Flickr/Richard Ling, CC BY ...

The pair was spotted swimming and foraging at Ecola Point. A nonprofit says that there's been no established otter population ...

Wherever sea otters are, they’re good at slowing down kelp reduction from urchins. “Because they don’t feed on urchins in the middle of an urchin barren, they don’t directly remove an ...

Sea urchins are devouring California’s coastal kelp faster than it can reproduce, researchers said. Photo by Portuguese Gravity on Unsplash California scientists are declaring war on sea urchins ...

When abalone diver Chris Theodore noticed sea urchins destroying his fishery he started harvesting the marine menaces as a culinary delicacy. Now a Senate inquiry wants to see the industry boom.