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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...