and best-selling author whose latest book for National Geographic is The Blue Zones American Kitchen. This story appears in the January 2023 issue of National Geographic magazine.

A version of this story appears in the February 2024 issue of National Geographic Magazine.

Beneath sea urchins’ exterior spines, rounded skeletons called tests are jewels of color, texture, and symmetry. There are hundreds of urchin species, and they’re found in every ocean on ...

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