Hay refers to this as the “white band of death” and it is associated with coral diseases seen all over the world. A sea cucumber feeding on the reef. CREDIT: Georgia Tech/Clements et. al. 2024. The ...

Sea cucumbers with coral and fish in Mo'orea. Photo credit: Cody Clements YouTube Video: 'Janitors’ of the Sea': Overharvested sea cucumbers play crucial role in protecting coral ‘Janitors ...

‘Janitors’ of the Sea: Overharvested sea cucumbers play crucial role in protecting coral. Credit: Chris McKenney, Georgia Institute of Technology YouTube Video: 'Janitors’ of the Sea ...

Divers Stumble Across a Super-Long Sea Cucumber Watch: Divers Stumble Across a Super-Long Sea Cucumber How This Fish Survives in a Sea Cucumber’s Bum How This Fish Survives in a Sea Cucumber’s ...

Narrator: Cucumbers usually cost under $3 a kilo. But sea cucumbers can set you back over $3,000 a kilo. In fact, they're so valuable people will risk their lives to get ahold of one. They might ...

Tommy Trenchard Sea cucumbers belong to the echinoderm family, along with starfish and urchins, and come in all shapes and sizes. They spend their days buried in silt, emerging at night to feed ...

Researchers have identified the genes involved in the sea cucumber’s gory ritual of expelling and regenerating its gut. Will it become the next important animal model for studies into regenerative ...

Central America’s Mesoamerican Reef is half the length of its famous Australian counterpart but in many ways more remarkable.

The Last of the Sea Women ( now streaming on Apple TV+) profiles the haenyeo – Korean for “sea women” – a group of female freedivers who harvest mollusks, kelp and other seafood from the ocean floor ...

Sea cucumbers, for instance, provide valuable protein, and they also possess medicinal properties for diabetes, cancer, and even act as an aphrodisiac. Families spontaneously trade surplus seafood ...