spiny
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Found only in Ecuador's Andes Mountains, its spiny armour helps protect it from eagle-eyed predators that can see through its disguise.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 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
Covering four representative species—the great white, the sandbar, the small-spotted catshark and the spiny dogfish—Daniel C. Abel and Sophie A. Maycock deliver breadth without sacrificing depth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
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
My sister reeled in a puffer fish that blew itself up into a spiny balloon—she said it looked just like her fourth-grade teacher.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
But her spinier attributes emerge when her beauty idyll is crashed by a rowdy extended family of holidaymakers with various squealing children in tow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2021
Martin imagined when writing his "Song of Ice and Fire" books; that one is bigger and spinier.
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2021
He’s surrounded by spinier, more surprising arrangements, too.
From The Verge ● Sep. 11, 2015
