Scientists on an icebreaker ship have captured a number of weird and wacky animals from Antarctica's ocean floor, including a ...

STRANGE creatures dredged up from the Antarctica seafloor by scientists may have previously been undiscovered. Australian ...

However, new research finds that sea cucumbers are the only echinoderms—and among the only animals on Earth—that produce chemicals called triterpenoid saponins, which don’t poison the sea cucumbers ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean in the South China Sea, a robot named “discovery” searched the seafloor for life. Faxian, meaning discovery in Chinese, is a remote-operated vehicle submersible ...

It looks like a slug but tastes delicious. Now illegal to farm in many parts of the world, sea cucumbers are the ...

The sea cucumber is an important animal to the islands of Palau. Many ecological systems depend upon it as a food resource. The sea cucumber's eggs are a primary food source for many other sea ...

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 ...

Rescuers capture a sick sea lion in Santa Barbara, California. Hundreds of animals have become ill from a neurotoxin, found in algae blooms, that causes concerning behavioral changes. Two ...

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 ...

As the sea cucumber became trapped in the robot’s mechanical hand, researchers found its body to be “fragile” and thinly walled, according to the study. The animal’s skin was “glass-like ...