As coral restoration practitioners work to repair the Keys’ most treasured reef sites, a first-of-its-kind sea urchin release hopes to keep those reefs in tip-top shape for new corals to grow. On Jan.

Southern sea otters living along California’s coast are struggling in warmer seas, with new threats and changing food sources. They, like the other two sea otter subspecies, are classified as ...

An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies of the deep seabed to date, and peer-reviewed results have begun to emerge. A collage of foraminifera, a kind of ...

The newly christened Mote Science Education Aquarium is not only opening its doors to visitors, it is setting the stage for the next generation of marine science professionals with its new STEM ...

It used to be thought that sea urchins only had a primitive nervous system, but new research has found that they are far more complex than that. The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are ...

The pointy shell of sea urchins hides a remarkably complex neural network that resembles the brains of vertebrates, new research suggests. Reading time 2 minutes When it comes to taking hardcore ...

Sea urchins have a body that is entirely made up of "head"—with a surprisingly complex central nervous system that functions, in essence, like an "all-body brain." This is the conclusion of an ...

For years, Macklyn Cove was a land of the living dead. Located near Brookings along Oregon's south coast, the cove was once home to vast underwater kelp forests that supported species as small as ...

MIAMI – As the end of hurricane season nears, tropical activity is winding down, but it's not come to a halt just yet. The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a disturbance moving across the ...