From jellyfish to venomous sea creatures, the ocean hides some incredibly painful defenses. This experiment explores just how ...

Tiny sea creatures that can impart a painful sting have been spotted on Texas beaches this week as spring break season begins ...

Spring breakers heading to Texas beaches may spot rare “blue dragons,” tiny ocean slugs with beautiful colors. But their ...

Sting has added more dates to his upcoming 2026 North American tour. The new shows on the Sting 3.0 tour will take place in the fall and include 20 just-announced concerts. The upcoming dates follow ...

Nature does it again! The natural world has a knack for giving us the blueprints for some useful technologies, and the humble sea urchin is the latest contributor. Scientists have designed a new class ...

Pupa U. P. A. Gilbert is in the Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA, and the Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, ...

New research has uncovered a mass die-off of sea urchins living in the Canary Islands—one that could signal an ongoing marine pandemic. Reading time 3 minutes An apocalyptic serial killer of sea ...

The mass mortality event was documented in the Canary Islands Researchers now fear that the pattern observed in the Canary Islands mortality event will also emerge in other regions around the world, ...

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 ...