The defense mechanisms animals use to evade or fight off predators can be both bizarre and fascinating. Some use camouflage ...

Their work, published in the Biodiversity Data Journal on June 26, describes a new type of deep-sea cucumber, a long, squishy animal with "pale pink violet" coloring and zig-zagging rows of 214 ...

The Australian Border Force seized 500 kilograms of sea cucumbers and 1,000 kilograms of salt over the weekend as part of a ...

Loricifera: A group of tiny, microscopic marine animals that can survive in low-oxygen environments, especially those in deep ...

Just ask this guy, Steven Purcell, one of the world's foremost experts on sea cucumbers. Purcell: They're quite strange animals. They don't have any limbs, they don't have any eyes. They have a ...

Crown-of-Thorns Starfish: This starfish specie uses a nerve ring and radial nerves to manage movement. Interestingly, these ...

An curved arrow pointing right. On a recent expedition in the Mariana Trench, NOAA's Okeanos Explorer team spotted this sea cucumber and the unique way it swims. Produced by Grace Raver Footage ...

Across Asia sea cucumbers have long been a staple in peoples' diets, mainly in soups, stews and stir-fries, and demand for this homely undersea animal, echinoderms, is high. Countries like ...

A sea cucumber excretes sediment out its back end. Credit: Cody Clements, Georgia Institute of Technology YouTube Video: 'Janitors’ of the Sea': Overharvested sea cucumbers play crucial role in ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service found today that the imperiled black teatfish sea cucumber may warrant Endangered Species Act protection and potentially a trade ban. Overfishing ...