Sea cucumbers may appear slow and unassuming, but they have developed an incredible and unforgettable defensive strategy.

Could a sea cucumber sugar transform cancer care? A new study reveals its enzyme-blocking potential and safer profile ...

Sea cucumbers spend their lives prowling the ocean floor, scavenging for food and generally minding their own business. We can see snails leading similar lives, slimy but not bothering anyone.

Residents of Mafia Island in Tanzania don’t really eat sea cucumber; they call it jongoo bahari, or “ocean millipede” in Swahili. But sea cucumbers are a prized delicacy in East Asia, where ...

Scientists identified the mechanism by which a sea cucumber molecule inhibits sulfatase-2, an enzyme that’s often upregulated ...

That’s precisely what [Ananya], [Laurence] and [Shao] did when they built Cucumber the Robot Dog for their final project in the ECE 4760 class.

Sea Cucumbers Sea cucumbers have an extraordinary defense mechanism: they can eject their internal organs to escape predators. Remarkably, they can regenerate these organs within weeks.

The little gourd can shoot its seeds nearly 40 feet, but until now, the mechanism behind the plant’s power and proliferation was poorly understood.

Prosecutors said the large-scale drug trafficking came to their attention, in part, because of the large number of "sea cucumbers" being shipped from California to Buffalo.