urchin
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Usually nothing lives inside a blue hole, but cameras dropped inside the new discovery show small sponges, a species of urchin called large spatangoid, and diverse fish species.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026
Her fossilized sea urchin, from a beach on the Red Sea, “responds by radiating its own inner joy at being found and loved too,” whispering: “We are two cyclical beings, each with their own story.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
In these cases, intense grazing by urchins can strip seafloors of plant life, damaging marine habitats and creating so-called "urchin barrens."
From Science Daily ● Dec. 12, 2025
Massara, an Italian restaurant in New York City, even serves a cold pasta: a chilled spaghetti with red prawn and briny, decadent sea urchin.
From Salon ● May 30, 2025
He did not complain about the urchin talk.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
The survivors, along with fish and echinoderms such as starfish and sea urchins, went on to dominate Earth's oceans, a pattern that continues today.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
"In the supermarket, you find luxury products, sea urchins or Dom Perignon champagne, and vegetables have become extremely expensive," pushing some people to do their shopping in a neighbouring town.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
Crinoids are part of the phylum Echinodermata which also boasts sea urchins and sea cucumbers.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
In turn, sea urchins are an important food source for many marine mammals, fish, crustaceans, and sea stars.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 12, 2025
As Maniac considered what to say, the urchins peeped from behind him: “We wasn’t noplace, John. We was right here. With this here kid. And he ain’t no cop neither. We checked him out.”
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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