Someday, optical communications and high-speed computing might owe their success to a little ocean creature: the sea urchin. Materials scientists have fabricated a photonic crystal using a piece of ...

Sea urchins are sphere-shaped or flat creatures that live in the ocean and are completely covered in protective spines. On the tips of these spines are tiny claw-like pincers called pedicellariae.‌ ...

Hundreds of dead or dying purple sea urchins washed up into the Little Corona Marine Life Refuge tide pools in recent days, a phenomenon some officials blame on warmer-than-usual waters. “On Monday ...

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

NARRAGANSETT — Hold a sea urchin in your hand and it’s impossible to figure out what part of its hard, spiny body you’re supposed to eat. Chicken of the sea, this is not. But there’s a big demand for ...

Sea shells are abundant on the New Jersey shores. There are the black ridged scallop shells that look like accordion fans, the pretty and delicate spiral shells that come in various patterns and ...

Last weekend, a lone, gray heart-shaped shell drifted ashore, nestling itself upon a beach in Cornwall, England. It was quickly joined by another—and then another. Before long, hundreds of these ...