The soft, cylindrical sea cucumber looks like a vegetable — and in some countries, it's a delicacy because of its nutritional ...

But it actually belongs to the phylum of echinoderms, closely related to starfish (aka sea stars), sand dollars, sea urchins and sea lilies. Many sea cucumber species can be found in a variety of ...

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 ...

They turned out to be divers from Sierra Leone, on a mission prospecting for sea cucumbers. These slimy, sausage-shaped members of the starfish family have no local market but are a valuable ...

But most echinoderms -- a group of some 7,000 species that includes brittle stars and similarly brainless starfish, sea urchins and sea cucumbers -- have not been tested. To find out if brittle stars ...