A sudden, unexplained mass die-off is decimating sea urchins around the world, including catastrophic losses in the Canary ...

Sea urchins are ecosystem engineers, the marine equivalent of mega-herbivores on land. By grazing and shredding seaweed and ...

Sea urchins help shape marine ecosystems by controlling algae growth on reefs. By grazing ...

Divers found colorful sea creatures with “large” eyes off the Canary Islands and Cabo Verde and discovered a new species. Getty Images/iStockphoto Off the coast of Cabo Verde, a diver plunged into the ...

James Dyke received funding for this research from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Patrick Doncaster received funding for this work from the UK Engineering and Physical ...

Over the last decade, numerous papers focusing on the fauna of the Canary Islands have reported that many spectacular species radiations have taken place, leading to a very high level of endemicity in ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 93, No. 4 (Apr., 2006), pp. 656-664 (9 pages) Plants endemic to oceanic islands represent some of the most unusual and rare taxa in the world. Enzyme electrophoresis ...

Crews have managed to control two huge forest fires that forced the evacuation of 14,000 people from homes, hotels and camp grounds at one of Europe's top tourist areas, officials in Spain's Canary ...