Long-spined sea urchins have emerged as an environmental issue off Australia's far south coast. Native to temperate waters around New South Wales, the urchins have expanded their range south as ...
For years the sea urchin's key predator was believed to be lobsters due to the crustacean's appendages being able to manipulate the spiky urchins to get inside. However the discovery that sharks ...
It's believed the sea urchin survived a snack attack by an aquatic lizard An amateur paleontologist has discovered a rare 66-million-year-old sea urchin on a beach in Denmark. Peter Bennicke ...
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This includes various groups of sea urchin, which by steadily stripping ... "Lobsters are thought to be 'key' urchin predators which control urchin abundances while sharks are not typically ...
Predators eat prey. By so doing ... In contrast, at sites where sea otters have long been absent, sea urchin populations have swollen to high densities and maintain extensive urchin barrens ...
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Predators can increase diversity in communities ... Likewise, in Alaska, sea otter decline has led to an increase in sea urchin abundance and a loss of kelp forest, and this decline has been ...
Kelp is a hot topic right now,” said Gina Contolini, a kelp restoration specialist with the Greater Farallones Association, ...
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While some shark populations have been increasing, bites have been decreasing per capita. Remarkably, there has never been an ...