The standout find was "Loki the Sea Cucumber," a member of the genus Peniagone whose horn-like appendages recalled the Norse ...

The rare discovery of a nursery with billions of baby sea cucumbers in the ocean water near Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, is helping ...

A mischievous sea cucumber and 56 other newly discovered marine species are making a splash in the South Atlantic Ocean. The ...

The post The Sea Cucumber's Bizarre Defense — Exploding Its Own Guts appeared first on A-Z Animals. Sea cucumbers have few predators. The ones they do have are often avoided by camouflage, blending ...

The black teatfish is the first sea cucumber estimated to have a lifespan that can exceed 100 years. (陳致維 Chih-Wei ...

A sea cucumber, lying innocently on a bed of sand, looks kind of like a blob, and feels almost plushy. But although the creatures seem squishy and defenseless, they have evolved fascinating strategies ...

Genome mining techniques have helped to explain how sea cucumbers produce defensive chemicals that enable them to fend off foes in the murky depths. Sea cucumbers are a food delicacy in south Asia ...

Researchers used flavoromics, bioinformatics, molecular simulation, and cell assays to identify a sea cucumber peptide, FDRGF ...

You might give back to your community by donating old clothes or volunteering at a food bank. Sea cucumbers offer something a little less conventional: poop, and lots of it. The researchers used ...

Sea cucumbers (Holothuroidea) are strange, cylindrical marine invertebrates closely related to sea urchins and starfish. They have no eyes, resemble a colossal chubby worm, and use their anus for both ...

Help to solve one of the world's most pressing dilemmas—how to feed the growing population while protecting the planet—may be at hand from a surprising ally—the sea cucumber. New research led by the ...