A strange disease has killed 99.7% of a type of sea urchin called Diadema africanum along Tenerife's coast in just three ...

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 ...

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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 ...

New research shows sea urchins possess a brain-like body system. Their nervous network is spread throughout, rather than centralised in one area. This challenges traditional ideas about how complex ...

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 ...

A fossil believed to be between 65 million and 100 million years old was found on a Norfolk beach. The fossilised sea urchin was discovered by Mark Fairclough at Cromer on Wednesday. Mr Fairclough ...