Healthy and starved urchins (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Cruz

Healthy and starved urchins

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A healthy purple sea urchin from a kelp forest has large yellow gonads (top image), whereas one from an urchin barren is starved (bottom), with little nutritional value for a sea otter.

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Photos by Michael Langhans

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