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.

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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 ...

Sea urchins are regarded as a pest in Australian waters where they eat kelp and seagrass to create barren wastelands on the ocean floor. The problem is only expected to get worse with warming ...

While sea otters were unaffected by wasting disease and continued to eat large urchins, the populations of medium-sized urchins exploded by over 300% and the density of kelp forests declined by 30%.