Deep below the surface of the ocean in the South China Sea, a robot named “discovery” searched the seafloor for life. Faxian, ...

The sea cucumber’s color is “unique,” researchers said, and its smaller number of tentacles (15 compared to 18 found in other related species) sets the animal apart. The species earns its name from a ...

Check out our stories here. The first new species was found at a depth of 20,987 feet, researchers said. Psychropotes diutiuscauda, or the longer-tailed sea cucumber, is “yellowish green” in ...