Long before the carnage began, the Cretaceous picked up where the Jurassic ... Rays and modern sharks became common. Sea urchins and sea stars (starfish) thrived; coral reefs continued to grow.

Want to help California’s kelp forests? Eat sea urchins. Want to help California’s kelp forests? Eat sea urchins. To save kelp forests, scientists try breeding sea stars To save kelp forests ...

KANAGAWA--In Japan, researchers are feeding vegetables to hungry sea urchins - a popular sushi ingredient - to try and stop them from eating dwindling stocks of ocean seaweed. The country is ...

the sea urchins. When studying sea otters along the coastlines of islands in Southern California and British Columbia, scientists found that how quickly these forests grew back depended on their ...

Around 66 million years ago, a marine creature from the Cretaceous era munched on ... Sea lilies are aquatic animals related to sea stars and sea urchins. In the fossil, the sea lilies were ...

researchers saw kelp forests return to areas that were destroyed by sea urchins. But how slow or fast they grew back depended on the location—and until now, scientists didn't understand why.

For most of the Cretaceous, Canada’s prairie provinces were sitting deep underwater. A giant inland sea cut right across North America. Known as the Western Interior Seaway, it ran north to ...