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

From 2005 to 2019, managers attempted biological control measures to reduce urchin numbers, but these efforts ultimately did not succeed.

From Science Daily • Dec. 12, 2025

Visitors to Puglia, a major producer of durum wheat, can try handmade pastas in a variety of shapes, paired with broccoli rabe, sea urchin and even a horse ragù.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 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

I was clean underneath, but my hill-walking trousers were caked with mud and my wet hair was standing on end and I felt shabby as a street urchin.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein