What are these in the sea? (lemmy.world)

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What are these dotted ball shaped things I circled in yellow in the image?

I thought they may be sea urchin skeletons. Though the things in the image may be too many and too large?

They are in a mural in Brighton, England. The subject is "Protecting Costa Rican Wildlife", so I guess they are of some native species there.

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago

Urchin shells

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

To be more specific on the terminology they are sea urchin tests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_(biology)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yes, missing the spines.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yes they look like sea urchin. However, the live ones look like the black shapes.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Not all urchins look like that, there's a lot of different types

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Fun fact: we call them "sea hedgehogs" in Hungarian.

[-] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago

Jellyfish maybe?

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