We recreate a dangerous ocean moment using a realistic fake foot. This experiment helps us understand what happens during a ...

The Canary Islands may represent the “missing link” in a global pandemic killing sea urchins. Sea urchins help build and maintain marine habitats in much the same way that large plant-eating animals ...

With their pointy spines, sea urchins are not warm and fuzzy marine animals that people want to snuggle up to. While they are ...

Ecologically important Diadema africanum almost eliminated by unknown disease in Canary Islands ...

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 ...

Sea urchins are ecosystem engineers, the marine equivalent of mega-herbivores on land. By grazing and shredding seaweed and ...

In Germany, there are probably many people with undetected diabetes mellitus, as suggested by vascular surgeon Professor Gerhard Rümenapf (Upper Rhine Vascular Centre Speyer, Clinic for Vascular ...