Sea cucumbers, or 'janitors of the sea', scour and clean the seafloor, allowing other animals to thrive. In the Philippines, ...

Larvae of sea cucumbers, sand dollars, sea urchins can clone themselves: biologists. Scientists had thought it happens only rarely. CBC News · Posted: Sep 27, 2003 5:04 PM EDT | Last Updated ...

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

The idea of adult sea cucumbers migrating sounds at first implausible. The animals’ larvae do indeed range far and wide. But once those larvae have settled they metamorphose into squishy ...

Larva of the sea cucumber, Holothuria tubulosa, showing nuclei (cyan) and actin (magenta). Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

Sea cucumbers bloat themselves to zoom around the ocean. Despite their slug-like reputation, ... (90 kilometers) per day, faster than they can swim as larvae. ...

Sea Lab’s sea cucumbers have been living in tanks for two months, and the aim of the project is for the marine animals to produce offspring during the 2020 season. “No one has yet succeeded in getting ...

GUANGLU ISLAND, China — Sea cucumbers are like chickens, Cong Xuanzhi explained. He did not mean the taste. He was describing how sea cucumbers, the unlovely cousins of starfish and sea urchins ...

The robot larvae, which Morgan and his colleagues have been deploying for hours or days at a time, reveal that larvae control their movements by swimming vertically. They also stay much closer to the ...

Sea cucumbers have become the most valuable farmed sea product in China, worth more than $8 billion a year, said Bao Pengyun, a marine biologist whose research at Dalian Ocean University ...