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Ravenous, brainless and covered with spikes, sea urchins have evolved to not be messed with. Off of the south coast of Oregon, one kind of urchin in particular, the purple sea urchin, is enjoying an ...

Consider the sea urchin. Specifically, the painted urchin: Lytechinus pictus, a prickly Ping-Pong ball from the eastern Pacific Ocean. The species is a smaller and shorter-spined cousin of the purple ...

With their pointy spines, sea urchins are not warm and fuzzy marine animals that people want to snuggle up to. While they are ...

The country’s first-ever festival dedicated to sea urchin, or more simply called uni in the culinary world, is taking place June 17th-19th in on the Mendocino Coast. As one of the biggest producers of ...

After noticing his urchins carrying rocks, shells and even hermit crabs around in his 120 gallon saltwater aquarium, a Colorado aquarium enthusiast started making them custom hats. Wilson Souza's ...

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A team of Italian scientists has identified potential anti-inflammatory and vasculoprotective effects of red cell extracts of the Black Sea urchin Arbacia lixula. The study has been published in the ...