Severed body parts from a sea cucumber survived for over three years in a lab, healing themselves and absorbing nutrients ...

Pieces of excised sea cucumber tissue have survived years and regrown parts. (Jobson et al., Sci. Adv., 2026) The oceans are ...

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Now, though, scientists have discovered bits of tissue removed from a species of sea cucumber called Psolus fabricii can keep ...

Learn more about Psolus fabricii, a species of sea cucumber whose severed tissue can survive for years after removal and ...

But merely persisting forever may not be all it’s cracked up to be—especially if you are reduced to just lying there, unable ...