Sea cucumbers represent a unique group of marine echinoderms whose biological characteristics and tissue composition have garnered significant scientific interest. Their distinctive body wall, ...
It’s that time of year again for the sea cucumber, that bottom-dwelling, tubular creature sought after by a select group of dive fishers throughout Southeast Alaska, the processors who buy them and a ...
Collecting S. horrens from plastic pens inside the Bolinao Marine lab. The sea cucumber Stichopus horrens contains a lot of bioactive compounds and employs various anti-predatory mechanisms. Credit: ...
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 ...
PANAMA CITY— Parties to CITES voted today to protect the pineapple sea cucumber, the amberfish sea cucumber and the red-lined or ‘candycane’ sea cucumber. All species are threatened by trade and will ...
Oman Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Water Resources Saud bin Hamoud Habisi said the extended ban will be in force ...
Some lizards shed their still-wriggling tails to distract predators, but sea cucumbers take this sort of strategy to the next level. Some startled sea cucumbers shoot a silky — and sticky — substance ...
Sea cucumbers have long been nature's unsung janitors, quietly cleaning the ocean floor. But new research suggests they may do more than just clean up, they could help clean out cancer cells. A ...
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