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they have spines that react to predators
They eat dead fish. They also eat mussels, crabs, clams, and sea urchins.
No, atually they live in massive groups, searching for kelp and other sea grasses to munch on. A large mass of urchins can clear massive kelp forests in a short amount of time. Most urchin groups live in shallows, but some species prefer deeper waters.
Sea urchins get their food at the bottom of the sea floor to eat dead fish.
to survive in the ocean, sea urchins always scurry away on their tube-like feet and hide in cracks and crevices. ( but of course they have to make sure their is no moray eels in there first!)
In the 1800s, too many sea otters were hunted for their fur. Without sea otters, fewer sea urchins were eaten. Soon, too many sea urchins were being born. Smaller fish could not survive, because sea urchins ate their supplies of kelp. These fish were food for sea stars and crabs. The sea stars and crabs began to die out.
More sea urchins.
No. Sea urchins live in the sea.
sea urchins can either reproduce sexually or asexually sea urchins can either reproduce sexually or asexually
Sea Urchins eat the Hold-fasts of kelp with five self sharpening teeth. For more details, see the link below.
there are excatly 3million purple sea urchins
sea urchins eat kelp.