While they have no backbone, sunflower sea stars ( Pycnopodia helianthoides) mean business–especailly when faced with spiny ...

Sea otters are often portrayed as lovable and relaxed animals that spend their time goofing around. Or, simply floating on their backs in the water with their special rock. While this image is ...

Chances are you have if you live near Monterey Bay, which in the 1920s provided some 75 percent of California’s abalone ...

Animal Behavior Even Giant Sea Snails Suffer From Transgenerational Stress Ocean acidification by humans decreases growth and reproduction for red abalone. Posted December 9, 2023 | Reviewed by ...

Sea urchins have no brains or hearts. But put them in the proximity of the unmistakable sunflower sea star, and somewhere in ...

It has long been suspected that a small pāua (known as abalone, ormers or ear-shells overseas) found around a remote island chain north of Aotearoa New Zealand differs from all other pāua.

In Monterey Bay, California, southern sea otters face food scarcity as their preferred prey, urchins and abalone, have declined due to climate change, overfishing and other environmental factors ...

South Korea’s “women of the sea” are carrying on a 400-year-old diving tradition by Annie Harrigan and Eater Video Aug 26, 2024, 11:22 AM PDT ...

Due to their condition, the abalone seized from the vehicle could not be returned to the wild and were disposed of. The pond turtle, Little said, was turned over to animal control and later released.

“Abalone and sea urchins are both herbivores that depend on healthy kelp forest ecosystems for food and habitat,” the CDFW said in a statement issued in 2016. “With the recent loss of kelp ...