HIRONO, Iwate Prefecture--Sea urchin are a culinary delicacy, but because their shells are often seen as too difficult or costly to recycle, they end up getting tossed out in bulk. But a local ...

A mountain of sea urchin shells, about 5000 specimens, was found in recent days by the Barracellare Company on the northern coast of Alghero. The echinoderms had been emptied, probably to obtain ...

The Dane finds a magic shell, which, when rubbed ... sometimes called tongues—the sea urchin’s wobbly gonads. Karoline O.A. Pettersen Sea urchins with their skin and spines removed.

“It was very eye-catching,” he said, as he absently played with a sea urchin shell that he keeps in his office. “And that’s the reason why, when we started thinking about the relaunch of ...

When you first look at a sea urchin in its native habitat, clinging to a reef, edible is probably not the first thing that comes to mind. But, upon carefully cracking that spiny shell, you'll see ...

Make Sushi 1 Live Sea Urchin Prep Guide for Food Lovers Posted: March 12, 2025 | Last updated: March 12, 2025 Experience the art of preparing live sea urchin, also known as uni, in this detailed ...

We have a unique and quite remarkable scenario here where commercial divers, researchers and government all work together to try to control the densities of this destructive urchin—and where ...

Considered a delicacy in several parts of the world, sea urchin, or uni in Japanese, is prized for its unique flavor. But the cost of the gonads — the orange tongues found inside an urchin ...