Saturday, July 31, 2010

SEARCHIN’ FOR URCHINS

May 9, 2009 by BayKeeper  
Filed under Education

Sea urchins must be good to eat. Why else would they need the hard and/or sharp spines if not to defend against predators? Like their starfish relatives, they are omnivorous scavengers and have tube-feet to take them in search of plant and animal material to browse on. They eat a lot! Dense populations of some [...]