🪨Sea urchins can be spotted carrying around objects, like rocks and shells!🐚

🤔Some theories for this put it down to camouflage from predators🐟, or protection from the sun's UV rays☀️
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I was selfishly on the hunt for them, when my loving wife with her child-like wonder, spotted them; it was all good fun.

#Photography #WarlockPhotography #CanonT2iRebel #GreenSeaUrchin #Strongylocentrotusdroebachiensis #Maine

The #AtlanticOcean #GreenSeaUrchin is light green with pink to purple tentacles and spines. Sea urchins use tube feet to move along the ocean floor eating algae. The #AristotleLlantern, is five-sided mouthlike opening. Green Urchin spines can still cause distress if the skin is punctured.