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Coral reef recovery could get a boost from an unlikely source: Sea cucumbers, the janitors of the seafloor
Overharvesting of sea cucumbers over the past few hundred years, but especially in recent decades, may have contributed to the dire state of today's coral reefs. Imagine if you stop vacuuming a ...
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Sea cucumbers
These Bizarre Sea Creatures May Help Save Coral Reefs—If They Survive These ... Divers Stumble Across a Super-Long Sea Cucumber Watch: Divers Stumble Across a Super-Long Sea Cucumber How This ...
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‘Fragile’ deep-sea creature — with 20 tentacles — discovered as new species in Pacific
In 2018, it discovered a new species of sea cucumber. While the robot was about 4,400 feet below the surface, a cylindrical figure appeared in the water, according to the study. It was about a ...
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Sea Cucumber
The sea cucumber is an important animal to the islands of Palau. Many ecological systems depend upon it as a food resource. The sea cucumber's eggs are a primary food source for many other sea ...