this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2023
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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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[–] roawre@feddit.ch 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] e0qdk@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Yes, missing the spines.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Devi@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] xenspidey@lemmy.zip -4 points 2 years ago

Jellyfish maybe?