How the sea urchin got its name
These days if you hear the word urchin, you may think of a ragamuffin kid, probably painted on black velvet with eyes that are too big. So why is the sea urchin, with no eyes at all and too spiky to look good on velvet, called that? The answer is that urchin is a old word for hedgehog… … and a sea urchin looks a lot like a curled up hedgehog. I saw this little fellow beetling through a churchyard….