These spiny or slimy ocean creatures display an astonishing diversity of appearances, behaviors and lifestyles—and many are ...

Researchers inside a deep-sea vehicle collected ... long when in the water but gets much smaller when taken out of the ocean. Sea cucumbers are scavenger feeders that use the tube feet along ...

Some species in cooler waters fertilise their eggs inside the body instead and ... in a similar way to worms on land. ‘Sea cucumbers will suck up a whole load of sediment, absorb any nutrients out of ...

Related: Sea cucumbers pinch out '5 Eiffel Towers worth' of poop per reef, per year These eel-like fish often — but not always — make a home for one inside their host. "As far as we know ...

If the black long sea cucumber (Holothuria leucospilota ... When provoked, they will tear a hole in the wall of their butts and shoot out a tangle of sticky, noodle-like goo.

Dive into the realm of the sea cucumber, an unassuming creature that helped shape Australia’s pre-European culture.

Some startled sea cucumbers shoot a silky — and sticky — substance out of their rear ends that is actually an entire organ. The tangle of tubules looks like intestines, but it evolved from the ...

or by caging corals with and without sea cucumbers inside the cages. In both experiments, corals near sea cucumbers were strikingly less likely to become diseased and die. Sea cucumbers are the ...

Back in 2018, when Clements first suspected that clearing out the sea cucumbers may have triggered the mortality of the corals, he rang up his supervisor at the time — Georgia Tech marine ...

Check out our stories here. The first new species was found at a depth of 20,987 feet, researchers said. Psychropotes ...