The new pilot project will sell the problematic purples to restaurants or turn them into agricultural products.

“It’s really been the commercial sea urchin diving community that has noticed ... from El Niño storms caused the kelp to die off. Purple urchins then started taking over and feeding on ...

Tasmania’s brisk waters produce some of the world’s best seafood with briny ingredients being reclaimed and reinvented on ...

A singular rogue hair—weird, spiky—can drive me to total distraction, never mind a splinter or a sea urchin spine ... and neon purple. In a travel tweezing emergency, my bright pink pair ...

Two-thirds of Oregon’s canopy disappeared between 2010 and 2022 due to rising ocean temperatures and an explosion of purple sea urchins ... and control the sea urchin population.

You really can’t overstate the case for visiting Cape Town. First, there’s the in-your-face beauty of a craggy mountain range ...

An example of this occurred in Northern California which recently experienced an exponential rise in purple sea urchins after their primary ... the only effective predator against the long-spined sea ...

To stop the baby from floating away while she hunts. Purple Sea Urchin, strongylocentrotus purpuratus, California. Sea Urchin. Image by slowmotiongli via Depositphotos The kelp forests supports ...

Scientists discovered the 1-foot-long animal while aboard a submersible several miles deep in the Pacific Ocean. Take a look.

Soon enough, a “long” purple sea creature caught their attention — and for good reason. It turned out to be a new species. A joint Chinese-New Zealand research team set out in October 2022 ...