Dried sea cucumber, known as bêche-de-meror trepang, is rehydrated and added to recipes like soups, stews, and stir-fries. Sea cucumbers can also be eaten raw, pickled, or fried.

Sea Cucumber Butts. Posted: January 19, 2017. Sea cucumbers have a really strange relationship with their buttholes. I’m Anna Rothschild, and this is Gross Science.

This sea cucumber shoots sticky tubes out of its butt. Its genes hint at how. Holothuria leucospilota’s newly analyzed genome helps explain this predator defense ...

Sea cucumber can be cooked and eaten, as the Chinese do, or dried, made into a powder and packed into capsules to take in pill form. “One of the fascinating things about sea cucumbers also is ...

Luckily, the sea cucumber has a secret superpower, one that isn’t apparent when it’s happily snagging detritus out of the water or pooping its way across a reef.

"Sea cucumbers provide an extra level of insurance against the things that are causing coral decline," says Clements. "Doesn't mean it's gonna fix everything, but we want to give them as much of a ...

Photo of a Namako sea cucumber. These marine animals could revitalize Hawaii's ancient fishponds. Joseph Bennington-Castro/NOAA Fisheries "In 2011, 70% of sea cucumber fisheries worldwide were ...

In 2005 Morocco’s sea cucumber industry got an unlikely boost from a group of abalone poachers from South Africa. (Abalone, fleshy marine snails, are also highly prized in Chinese cuisine.) ...