For years, thorny underwater critters have been chewing their way through kelp and other plant material, leaving behind ...

When the fur trade wiped out North America’s sea otters in the early 20th century, sea urchins—a favorite otter food— ...

B.C. researchers have found that the fiords of the Central Coast may be providing refuge for the critically endangered ...

Sea otters are one of the predators — one of the wolves, to continue the metaphor, to our urchin deer — keeping urchins in ...

A marine rewilding initiative to restore an underwater kelp forest in West Sussex is celebrating "remarkable" results, a wildlife trust has said. The project was launched after the implementation ...

A pod of bottlenose dolphins seemingly took interest in the capsule that dropped out of the sky, circling and surfacing as SpaceX team members worked to recover their spacecraft. As it turns out ...

Local community members, including First Nations, have revealed that, generally, the kelp forests have declined in density and coverage in their territories (Broughton Aquaculture Transition ...

Urchins are hand-harvested by scuba divers in Tasmania, down to approximately 26 meters. IMAS researchers have found evidence of kelp regrowth in areas where urchin numbers are lowered through ...