Scientists identified the mechanism by which a sea cucumber molecule inhibits sulfatase-2, an enzyme that’s often upregulated ...

In a nutshell Scientists found that a compound from sea cucumbers can block Sulf-2, an enzyme that helps cancer cells spread ...

Sea cucumbers are marine invertebrates that live on the seafloor. They're named for their unusual oblong shape that resembles a fat cucumber. Although people occasionally eat sea cucumbers, these ...

Sea cucumbers may appear slow and unassuming, but they have developed an incredible and unforgettable defensive strategy.

First Nations people started trading 'trepang', or sea cucumber, in the 1700s, and now these tiny marine animals may help ...

The number of pearlfish shacked up in a single sea cucumber can hit double figures. In 1975, scientist Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow found a leopard sea cucumber ( Bohadschia argus ) with 15 pearlfish ...

Sea cucumber removal increased tissue mortality of Acropora pulchra by ~370% and colony mortality by ~1500%." In other words, we really can't understate the importance of sea cucumbers in the web ...

The pearlfish’s solution: swim up a sea cucumber’s anus and eat its gonads. They say home is where the heart is, but for the pearlfish, home is more like where the gonad is.

Being a successful sea cucumber diver takes skill and physical strength. Divers have just 11 hours each week over the course of Monday and Tuesday to pick up the maximum 2,000 pounds.

In 1975, Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow was diving off the Banda Islands in Indonesia, when he collected a leopard sea cucumber—a cylindrical relative of starfish and sea urchins. It was a large and ...

A video purporting to show a sea cucumber engaged in a frenzied feeding session was shared to Reddit on April 3, 2024, with a caption that read, "A sea cucumber eating." The fringe-footed sea ...