A bizarre and hilarious stunt where an ultra-realistic fake foot is used to stomp on sea urchins, blending shock value with absurd creativity.

She'd stepped on a sea urchin, and there were multiple spines sticking out of her left foot, near the big toe. "I knew it was something I needed to address right away so I paddled back in," said ...

Christina Black, 40, soaked her foot in hot water and Epsom salts for several weeks, but the sea urchin's spine (which she named BARBara) still wouldn't budge. U.S. fires head of military base in ...

But in January 2022, these animals started showing strange symptoms — their sharp spines drooping and falling off, their suction-cup feet losing ... 1980s and slashed sea urchin populations ...

Sea Urchin Dermatitis. These black puncture marks ... even if you are wearing something on your feet. For the health of sea urchins, you shouldn’t touch them. If you have to touch one to move ...

Despite recent efforts by sea urchin harvesters to reduce protections ... people to stay at least five kayak lengths, or roughly 50 feet, away from sea otters at all times. If the sea otters ...

and adhesion (force at which their tube feet detach from a surface). In Garner's lab at Syracuse, he and Moura completed data analysis to compare each metric. The team found that sea urchin ...

(Photo by Michael Langhans) A healthy sea urchin from a kelp forest has large yellow gonads ... and giant kelp (the dominant species on the Central Coast) can grow more than a foot per day in good ...