Omakase by now is firmly lodged in the zeitgeist. In the Bay Area, you’ll find the word proudly attached to restaurants (Ren Omakase in Redwood City, the Michelin-recognized Omakase in San Francisco) ...

With their pointy spines, sea urchins are not warm and fuzzy marine animals that people want to snuggle up to. While they are ...

The sea otter pup was tiny, probably less than 2 weeks old, alone in Morro Bay on an October morning earlier this year. A ...

Rock lobsters (better known as kōura and crayfish) are a natural predator of sea urchins, which can overgraze the kelp, leading to barren rocky reefs. A three year closure on rock lobster fishing was ...

Ecologically important Diadema africanum almost eliminated by unknown disease in Canary Islands A marine pandemic is bringing some species of sea urchin to the brink of extinction, and some ...

It used to be thought that sea urchins only had a primitive nervous system, but new research has found that they are far more complex than that. The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are ...

The pointy shell of sea urchins hides a remarkably complex neural network that resembles the brains of vertebrates, new research suggests. Reading time 2 minutes When it comes to taking hardcore ...

It’s well into the second act of “Urchin,” writer/director Harris Dickinson’s searing portrait of addiction and homelessness in East London, before we see our protagonist, Mike (Frank Dillane) smile ...

Credits: Directed by Harris Dickinson, starring Harris Dickinson, Frank Dillane, Megan Northam, Amr Waked, Shonagh Marie. Rating/runtime: No MPA rating. Contains ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Harris Dickinson’s feature directorial debut, “Urchin,” introduces us from a distance to its subject in its ...

Frank Dillane, starring as a recovering addict in London, elevates this character study, Harris Dickinson’s feature directing debut. By Beatrice Loayza When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...