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 ...

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.

“While we’re here, can we zoom on that little sea cucumber?” one researcher asked in the video. “Oh my gosh, you can see whatever those organs are in there, those pink ones, like little ...

Companies want to exploit valuable deep-sea metals in international waters ... a plethora of creatures - "everything from strange [sea] cucumbers with elaborate sails on their back to beautiful ...

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 ...

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 ...

Their findings on how sea cucumbers restore damaged or lost body ... Marine biology research at IOCAS also extends to the deep sea, whose extreme environment hosts unique life forms and bio ...

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 ...

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”.