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 ...

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HIRONO, Iwate Prefecture--Sea urchin are a culinary delicacy, but because their shells are often seen as too difficult or costly to recycle, they end up getting tossed out in bulk. But a local ...

"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 ...

Urchin "barrens" are vast, stretching through Oregon, and their natural predators are absent from the north coast: Sunflower stars are locally extinct due to a mysterious disease, and sea otters ...

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When it comes to expensive delicacies, one my favourites is sea urchin, or uni in Japanese. If I see it on a menu, I'm almost sure to order it. Because its delicate flavour is so elusive ...