urchins

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"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

Sunflower sea stars used to prey on the urchins, keeping their population in check.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2025

There were some fuzzy data using sea urchins, interpreted as a transformation of DNA into RNA, but I preferred to trust other experiments showing that DNA molecules, once synthesized, are very very stable.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson