PORT ANGELES — A company that offloaded 1,400 pounds of green sea urchins worth $2,000 at Port Angeles Boat Haven is under investigation for receiving the spiny delicacy without the proper paperwork.

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.

Consider the sea urchin. Specifically, the painted urchin: Lytechinus pictus, a prickly Ping-Pong ball from the eastern Pacific Ocean. The species is a smaller and shorter-spined cousin of the purple ...

What you can see in this YouTube clip is very different from most of the underwater footage that you will come across online. It features a diver picking up sea urchins using a metal tool and breaking ...

A government programme to breed sea urchins (rizzi) to once again populate the seas is showing promising signs of success. The project comes as the number of sea urchins in Maltese waters has dwindled ...

With spikes as long as knitting needles, long-spined sea urchins may look like underwater villains, but their appetite for algae makes them the unsung heroes of Caribbean reefs. Courtesy of the ...

Pandemic killed off sea urchins in the Red Sea Linked to pathogen which kills fast and violently Sea urchins feed on algae that block out sun if unchecked Researchers warn pandemic heading towards ...