It looks like a slug but tastes delicious. Now illegal to farm in many parts of the world, sea cucumbers are the weirdest-looking expensive seafood. So are they animals or vegetables? And what makes ...

Sea cucumbers scrub the seafloor. Soon, they might scrub out cancer. A team of researchers from the University of Mississippi, Ole Miss, and Georgetown University has discovered a sugar compound in ...

Ellen Goethel is a marine biologist and the owner of Explore the Ocean World Oceanarium at 367 Ocean Blvd. at Hampton Beach.

Sea cucumbers are ancient animals that populate the seafloor. While some resemble their fruit namesake, there is an incredible variety of species. Skip to content. ... On some parts of the deep-sea ...

While these sea cucumbers dwell in some of Earth’s deepest parts, they are still not immune to the effects of overfishing and particularly the drilling and mining activities that threaten their ...

Scientists uncover rare parasitic snails living inside sea cucumbers in Japan—offering new insights into unusual animal relationships.

Zunyu Zhao and Xionwei Xiao were charged with conspiracy and illegal importation of brown sea cucumbers worth over $10,000 from 2017 to 2019 and are scheduled to be sentenced in September and ...

Sea cucumbers, however, use one of the most unusual tactics we’ve seen. As you can see in the above video, they shoot their intestines out of their body The Strange Defense Mechanism of the Sea ...

In both instances, they neatly regenerate the discarded body parts. And when the sea cucumber Chiridota laevis senses a bite or tear, it pinches off the injured body part within 30 seconds.

Wildlife traffickers pleaded guilty this week in federal court in California to illegally importing endangered sea cucumbers — which are prized in China for food and medicine and as a reputed ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wildlife traffickers pleaded guilty this week in federal court in California to illegally importing endangered sea cucumbers — which are prized in China for food and ...