A sudden, unexplained mass die-off is decimating sea urchins around the world, including catastrophic losses in the Canary Islands. Key reef-grazing species are reaching historic lows, and their ...

Ecologically important Diadema africanum almost eliminated by unknown disease in Canary Islands A marine pandemic is bringing some species of sea urchin to the brink of extinction, and some ...

A surprising study has revealed that an unrecognized marine pandemic is causing mass mortality in bringing some sea urchin species to critical endangerment and causing some populations to vanish ...

Sea urchins are ecosystem engineers, the marine equivalent of mega-herbivores on land. By grazing and shredding seaweed and seagrass, they control algal growth and promote the survival of slow-growing ...

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 ...

An international team of researchers, including scientists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, has uncovered a surprisingly complex nervous system in sea urchins. The animals appear to possess an ...

It’s well into the second act of “Urchin,” writer/director Harris Dickinson’s searing portrait of addiction and homelessness in East London, before we see our protagonist, Mike (Frank Dillane) smile ...

Credits: Directed by Harris Dickinson, starring Harris Dickinson, Frank Dillane, Megan Northam, Amr Waked, Shonagh Marie. Rating/runtime: No MPA rating. Contains ...

The awards seasons is heating up with high-profile limited releases in Luca Guadagnino’s After The Hunt, Harris Dickinson’s directorial debut Urchin, and Sundance and Berlin premiering comedy-drama If ...