Warming waters and over-hunting the marine mammals that once brought balance to the ecosystem have led to an overpopulation of Pacific purple sea urchins. And while sprawling urchin barrens sound like ...
"We know the pathogen hurts," says Dr Omri Bronstein at Tel Aviv University, placing a dead black sea urchin - its body the size and shape of a flattened tennis ball - into my hands. He says there ...
Considered a delicacy in several parts of the world, sea urchin, or uni in Japanese, is prized for its unique flavor. But the cost of the gonads — the orange tongues found inside an urchin ...