Unless you are a scuba diver or snorkeler, you’ve probably never seen a sea cucumber in the wild, let alone seen one pooping.

Natural World explains these slender and slithery fishes go to "extreme depths" to find a safe and secure place to hide from predators. Wanna take a wild guess where ...

If you’re looking to catch a sea cucumber, then the first step you’re gonna have to take is one towards the ocean. You’ll be able to catch one at the beach, but it’s going to have to be during the ...

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 ...

Inside the processing plant at Alaska Glacier Seafood (AGS), plant manager Nick Segal held out a slimy, gelatinous sea creature about the size and shape of a pickle. The cylindrical bottom-dweller has ...

Pandora Dewan is a Senior Science Reporter at Newsweek based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on science, health and technology. Pandora joined Newsweek in 2022 and previously worked as the Head ...

'Burnt Hot Dog' sea cucumbers take center stage in a new genetic study that digs into their valued spot in marine ecosystems across Japan's Okinawa Island as well as their extreme vulnerability to ...

Dive into an underwater adventure as we explore the art of spearfishing and present an intriguing meal option: sea cucumber.

Sea cucumbers, the small vacuum cleaners of the sea floor, are highly prized as delicacy, folk remedy, and aphrodisiac, especially in Asia, but their numbers are declining. A recent sea cucumbers ...

The lure of lucrative echinoderms may have proved too strong for three Southeast fishermen. The trio, all from Naukati Bay on Prince of Wales Island, face criminal charges after pilfering nearly 4 ...