Take the sunflower sea star: When it eats its preferred meal of a tasty purple sea urchin, it first pushes its stomach out through its mouth, then slurps everything back in to digest.
Sunflower sea stars — the giants of sea stars, with up to 21 limbs — eat sea urchins. In their absence, the sea urchin population proliferated. Sea urchins eat kelp, and the explosion in their ...
Want to help California’s kelp forests? Eat sea urchins. Want to help California’s kelp forests? Eat sea urchins. To save kelp forests, scientists try breeding sea stars To save kelp forests ...
“Many people think uni is roe, but it’s actually the gonads (sex organs) of the sea urchin,” says Ebina. “These organs produce either eggs (female) or sperm (male) during the spawning season.
KANAGAWA--In Japan, researchers are feeding vegetables to hungry sea urchins - a popular sushi ingredient - to try and stop them from eating dwindling stocks of ocean seaweed. The country is ...