Echinology (SEA URCHINS!) is up! (Patreon)

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2022-04-07 00:48:23

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2026-06

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If you’re not Cal Academy’s Dr. Rich Mooi, you don’t know enough about sea urchins. Or sand dollars. Don’t worry, we’ll fix that.

I loved getting to visit the academy a few weeks ago and Rich is just contagiously excited to share facts about these incredible creatures hiding on the shores and in the deep. Spikes and spines and water hedgehogs and uni and kelp forests and evolutionary biology and tube feet and tiny hats await you!

DID YOU REALIZE YOU LOVED THEM? Be honest.

No steppy on spikey,

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Echinology (SEA URCHINS & SAND DOLLARS) with Rich Mooi - alie ward

The hedgehogs of the sea: echinoids are spiky, spiny, pokey, be-toothed, venomous, mysterious, gorgeous evolutionary marvels. And Dr. Rich Mooi of the California Academy of Arts & Sciences is one of their biggest champions. Come stroll through the offices for a face-to-face encounter with th