Sea otters are one of the most adorable aquatic animals ... They are known for helping kelp forests flourish, particularly in central California. Otters like to eat sea urchins, which feed ...

California's coast has bull and giant kelp, the world's largest marine algae. Urchins have hurt both species, though giant kelp forests have ... you're killing this animal that's a native species ...

Inside, an experiment is playing out that gives a badly-needed boost to Northern California's kelp forests—underwater cathedrals of green and gold that nearly vanished from the north coast a ...

“Eating sea urchins is actually a way to help the kelp,” said Lamb, pointing to people who are “diving and collecting urchins ...

A UC Santa Cruz science diver traversing a kelp forest at the northern end of Carmel Bay. (Photo by Steve Lonhart / NOAA MBNMS) How can California’s kelp forests, which have faced dramatic declines ...

Inside, an experiment is playing out that gives a badly needed boost to Northern California’s kelp forests — underwater cathedrals of green and gold that nearly vanished from the north coast a ...

providing an even greater range of habitats to the ancestors of the animals we associate with them today. When Looy gazes out at the Pacific Ocean from Point Lobos State Natural Reserve in Monterey, ...

Using mathematical models, researchers have been able to identify how an extinct mammal - the Stellar’s Sea Cow - likely impacted kelp forests prior ... was a four-ton animal that was closely ...

Photo from MBARI From a research vessel off the coast of California ... kelp forests, and coral reefs,” the institute said. Scientifically known as nudibranchs, these slug-like animals usually ...

Researchers were baffled by a bioluminescent mollusk that lives in the deep ocean. They just discovered it's a new species of sea slug.

the kelp forests off the coast of northern California. Warming sea water has triggered an explosion in the population of purple sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) which devour kelp at an ...