After purple urchins helped nearly wipe out 96% of California's iconic underwater bull kelp forests over a six-year span, biologists say they are seeing promising signs that efforts to save them may be helping.
  • tquidEnglish
    161·
    10 months ago

    Anyone initially read this as “orphan crushing”?

    • CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      10 months ago

      I read it accurately as urchin crushing, but still thought they were talking about destitute children at first (a la Oliver Twist).

    • Everythingispenguins@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      I straight up thought we were crushing them with kelp. Which my first two thoughts were; why that is a terrible thing to do and I am sure there is a better way to crush them than kelp.

      Fucking brains they are an odd thing.

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      I was about to get all political with it too … as the theme of one of the political parties in the US