Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sea cucumbers scrub the seafloor. Soon, they might scrub out cancer. A team of researchers from the University of Mississippi, Ole ...

S ea cucumbers feast on and clean up organic debris lying on the ocean floor, earning them the moniker “the janitors of the sea.” While many people also enjoy sea cucumbers as delicacies, few know ...

Tiny spikes on cucumber fruits, known as trichomes or fruit spines, serve as more than just surface features—they play a key role in defense and quality. Now, researchers have identified CsTs, a ...

Underwater life may expose unusual survival patterns, but none are as bizarre and intriguing as the habits of certain fish that take refuge inside the bodies of sea cucumbers. In a predator-dense ...