MAFIA ISLAND, Tanzania — His white beard streaming in the turquoise waters, Waziri Mpogo dives under the surface a few hundred meters offshore of a palm-lined beach. Holding his breath, he heads for ...

Few animals seem less animal-like than sea cucumbers. The long, slender beings often appear motionless like the vegetable they resemble as they bask on the seafloor. They lack a brain, eyes or obvious ...

Sea cucumbers are marine invertebrates found in every ocean around the world. There are over 1,700 known species, ranging from less than an inch to over 6 feet long. Although many have elongated, ...

Thousands of feet below the surface of the South China Sea, scientists piloted a submarine through shadowy depths. Something along the seafloor caught their eye: a yellowy creature covered in ...

It’s that time of year again for the sea cucumber, that bottom-dwelling, tubular creature sought after by a select group of dive fishers throughout Southeast Alaska, the processors who buy them and a ...

The genome of a sea cucumber, collected at a depth of 2400 m during a submarine trip to a hydrothermal vent, sheds light on genetic features that help marine animals to survive in extreme conditions ...

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 ...

OXFORD, Miss. – Sea cucumbers are the ocean’s janitors, cleaning the seabed and recycling nutrients back into the water. But this humble marine invertebrate could also hold the key to stopping the ...

Few animals seem less animal-like than sea cucumbers. The long, slender beings often appear motionless like the vegetable they resemble as they bask on the seafloor. They lack a brain, eyes or obvious ...

These spiny or slimy ocean creatures display an astonishing diversity of appearances, behaviors and lifestyles—and many are increasingly threatened Katarina Zimmer, Knowable Magazine Sea cucumbers ...