Christine has had an infatuation with video games since she was a child, starting with games such as Diablo 2 and Morrowind. Her current obsessions include Final Fantasy 14, Genshin Impact, and Dragon ...

This slimline, eel-like fish has no scales for protection so chooses to use a sea cucumber's sphincter for safety. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

If Buddhists are right about that whole reincarnation thing, it’d be hard to imagine what you’d have to do wrong to die and come back as a sea cucumber. One minute you’re human and the next you’re ...

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In 1975, Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow was diving off the Banda Islands in Indonesia, when he collected a leopard sea cucumber—a cylindrical relative of starfish and sea urchins. It was a large and stubby ...

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Some species of pearlfish have chosen an interesting host shelter: inside the anus of a sea cucumber. This slender, translucent and scaleless fish really takes advantage of being pencil thin. Not ...

Sea cucumbers have a really strange relationship with their buttholes. I’m Anna Rothschild, and this is Gross Science. To begin, let me just clarify that sea cucumbers don’t exactly have a butt in the ...

(via BBC Earth) Sea cucumbers are repellant to most predators, which makes them a perfect hiding spot for the Pearlfish.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Name: Pearlfish (Carapidae family) Where it lives: Inside invertebrate hosts in shallow, tropical ...