Enter, the sea cucumber. There are more than 1,000 species of sea cucumber worldwide, with at least 160 found in Australian ...

Sea cucumbers, a diverse group of echinoderms, have emerged as a focal point of marine biomedical research due to their rich reservoir of bioactive compounds. Their body tissues and extracts contain a ...

What crawls across the sea floor, can cost more than silver by the pound, and, according to several seemingly reputable scientific sources, “breathes” through its anus? Meet the sea cucumber – the ...

New information on swimming behavior of four species of deep-sea holothurians has been obtained using the research submersibles Johnson-Sea-Link (Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution) and Pisces V ...

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 ...

Last week, I promised to write about an animal found in the Gulf of Maine. You asked for it! This week, one of my patrons brought me a photo taken at Long Sands Beach in York, Maine. I had never seen ...