The squishy blob is a sea cucumber — and a new species. Thousands of new species are found each year. Here are three of our most recent eye-catching stories. →Pregnant deep-sea creature ...

Some deep-sea creatures are rarely seen by humans because they stay close to the ocean floor. Sea cucumbers (class Holothuroidea), however, can survive in both shallow waters and the deep ocean.

Most sea cucumbers, or holothuroids in scientific terms, spend their lives feeding on seafloor sediment. But scientists now believe a few species are actually capable of regulating their buoyancy ...

Abdoulaye Mansaray learnt about the business while processing sea cucumbers in Sierra Leone Liberia may be sitting on a potentially valuable trade in sea cucumbers with China, but as journalist ...

There are plans to mine the zone for deep-sea metals which could put the ... like the abyssal sea cucumber. SMARTEX Project/ NERC It’s the first time a list like this has been made of what ...

Sea cucumber stocks are under intense fishing pressure throughout the world according to a new FAO report. Most high value commercial species have been depleted in the African and Indian ocean ...

The new species were found thousands of feet deep in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone ... is home to a wide variety of species, including sea cucumbers, sponges, crustaceans, worms, "and even the ...

Along Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef, curious visitors can witness an innovative new coral restoration project and help ...

When the deep-sea submersible parked 5,017 metres ... seabed were obsidian rocks with “patches of neon-orange” and sea cucumbers grazing “like tiny translucent-purple cows”.

Corals and other marine invertebrates host diverse microbes that remain poorly characterized, especially in the deep sea ... landings of lobsters, sea urchins and sea cucumbers of up to 58% ...

Cucumbers are in season from May to October, but are available year-round. Look for firm, vibrantly green fruit without wrinkles. Smaller ridged cucumbers differ little in taste to the more common ...