Genome mining techniques have helped to explain how sea cucumbers produce defensive chemicals that enable them to fend off foes in the murky depths. Sea cucumbers are a food delicacy in south Asia ...

Sea cucumbers' self defense trick could boost multi-million dollar industry. Genome mining techniques have helped to explain how sea cucumbers produce defensive chemicals that enable them to fend off ...

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 ...

Sea cucumbers may appear slow and unassuming, but they have developed an incredible and unforgettable defensive strategy. When threatened or attacked, as seen in this Facebook video, sea cucumbers ...

Researchers from China have conducted a year-long investigation into the impact of PV farms on sea cucumber aquaculture. Using the structural equation modeling (SEM) statistical technique, the group ...

PROGRESO, Mexico — Ricardo Domínguez Cano stared at the Yucatán Peninsula's intense blue sea as he remembered a different time, before a vital sea animal was endangered. “The sea cucumber was not ...