urchin

On the Carpinteria Reef, commercial fishers target crab, lobster, sea urchin, sea cucumber and, farther out, fish, including halibut, said Dave Colker, executive director of Ventura County Commercial Fishermen’s Assn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

I asked my son to give me a quote for this column, but I couldn’t find him, because that urchin was off fishing with an urchin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

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

After the 2008 event, many urchin populations rebounded, sometimes relatively quickly.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 12, 2025

Penelope was losing patience, but she was also beginning to feel sorry for this urchin.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

There are those who argue urchins are a triumph of packaging, their boxes and tubes designed to look like toy store collectibles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 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 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

Made him feel like a little kid, stupid and obvious, the way the urchins looked when they were hanging out behind Chen’s grub shack, hoping he’d toss out bones for them to pick over.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi