From their bizarre name to their blobby worm shape to the fact that its anus is also a mouth, sea cucumbers are some of the most outlandish things in the ocean. There are more than 1,700 species in ...

The cosmetics industry is constantly searching for new active ingredients–and this time, a sea creature that is anything but glamorous is in the spotlight: the sea cucumber. But can an animal that ...

Over the years, Cody Clements, a marine ecologist at Georgia Tech, has planted over 10,000 coral fragments across the South Pacific. "You can just break off a branch from a coral, plant it into the ...

Fishers on Indonesia’s Sapuka island have decided to regulate their sea cucumber harvests. Since the 1960s, sea cucumber has been an important commodity for the island, but heavy harvest pressure has ...