Learn how these slow-moving creatures recycle nutrients through their poop to keep coral reefs thriving and oceans balanced.

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Few animals seem less animal-like than sea cucumbers. The long, slender beings often appear motionless like the vegetable they resemble as they bask on the seafloor. They lack a brain, eyes or obvious ...

Sea cucumbers are marine invertebrates found in every ocean around the world. There are over 1,700 known species, ranging from less than an inch to over 6 feet long. Although many have elongated, ...

WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- Scientists have a handful of standard research organisms, including fruit flies and mice, that they use to study the evolutionary development (evo-devo) of animal lineages over ...

Mark Hay receives funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, and the Harry and Anna Teasley Endowment to Georgia Tech.. Sea cucumbers, scavengers of the seafloor ...

A regulatory change last winter allows more flexibility for Alaska fishery managers to extend the season into April ...

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Far below the surface of the South China Sea, a creature with “glass-like” skin was discovered. Greg Nerantzakis via Unsplash Deep below the surface of the ocean in the South China Sea, a robot named ...