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Before 2013, divers on North America's west coast rarely saw purple sea urchins. The spiky animals, which are voracious kelp eaters, were a favorite food of the coast's iconic sunflower sea stars. The ...

The Australian government agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation , has discovered a new ...

From sea star wasting disease, more than 90% of the sunflower sea ... Removing the kelp alters light levels below, leading to changes such as turf algae growth in place of filter-feeding invertebrates ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Rebecca Vega Thurber, University of California, Santa Barbara (THE CONVERSATION) ...

While many of the fish, cetaceans and other more conspicuous or “charismatic” animals have been well studied, a whole world ...

Marine biologists identified a new deep-sea coral species, Iridogorgia chewbacca. This coral was found near Molokaʻi and the ...

Power at the Poles The United States leads the world in aircraft carriers, with eleven nuclear-powered giants. Russia, i ...