spiny

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In recent years, Lentali has congratulated Musk on company news, and even invited him to the French island to eat “local fish and spiny lobster.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

They also found many arthropods -- a family that includes modern-day crabs and insects -- including spiny, stalk-eyed creatures called radiodonts which were the apex predator of the time.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

British gardens matter more than ever for hedgehogs, according to a study of the secret night life of the spiny mammals.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026

On California’s North Coast, where other urchin nemeses — like otters, spiny lobsters and sheephead — are lacking, 96% of the region’s kelp forests vanished in the decade following the sea star collapse.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025

The spiny, flat tail of layered pine needle quills.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate