With their pointy spines, sea urchins are not warm and fuzzy marine animals that people want to snuggle up to. While they are an essential part of the ocean’s ecosystem, they can puncture a person’s ...

A rapid spread of millions of sea urchins is threatening vital kelp forests, which remove pollutants from water.

It is an incredibly cool moment shared by Jack Roscoe from New Zealand. The video shows Jack as an employee, harvesting sea urchins and collecting them in a bag for his restaurant. "We're harvesting ...

The Canary Islands may represent the “missing link” in a global pandemic killing sea urchins. Sea urchins help build and maintain marine habitats in much the same way that large plant-eating animals ...

The sea otter pup was tiny, probably less than 2 weeks old, alone in Morro Bay on an October morning earlier this year. A kayaker scooped it out of the water after listening to it endlessly crying for ...

Omakase by now is firmly lodged in the zeitgeist. In the Bay Area, you’ll find the word proudly attached to restaurants (Ren ...

The SFGATE food team is a hardworking bunch. We report, we write and we edit. In between those job duties is our journalistic ...

Paiche, the gigantic and delicious Amazonian whitefish, came fish stick-style in a wrapper made of oxidized yacon, a Peruvian ...

While the marine heatwaves killing the kelp ecosystem were alarming on their own, the researchers have discovered a new ...

Beachcombers along the Texas coast were treated to an unexpected treasure this past week. Sand dollars — lots of them — were ...

Sushi is a special kind of culinary delight, and restaurants across the country specialize in this Japanese delicacy. Here ...