A swarm of jellyfish-like creatures called salps forced a California nuclear plant to shut down one of its reactors last month after the odd organisms clogged up the plant’s water intake system. But ...

“Salps are really weird animals,” said Alejandro Damian-Serrano, an adjunct professor in biology at the University of Oregon's (UO) Institute of Marine Biology. “While their common ancestor with us ...

We all know about jellyfish, but have you ever heard of a sea salp? They are gelatinous and fascinating creatures living in the open ocean. Although they resemble jellyfish, sea salps have their own ...

If you’ve been to a beach in the Grand Strand lately, you might have noticed thousands of little clear blobs scattered across the sand. But what are the colorless, gelatinous creatures? The strange ...

Humans continue to amplify global warming by emitting billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. A new study reveals that an ocean animal called a salp plays an outsize role in ...

Southern California paddleboarder Bill Clements was 3 miles offshore when he spotted something that looked more like a see-through floating spine than an actual animal. Clements was by himself ...

Salp bodies obscure the green coral below. At top, with tail, is a larvacean. Larvaceans build a gelatinous “house” about the size of a walnut that completely encloses their tiny bodies. The house ...

Experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute have, for the first time, experimentally measured the release of iron from the fecal pellets of krill and salps under natural conditions and tested its ...

Swarms of lowly thumb-sized ocean creatures that often resemble chains of transparent Gummy Bears play a critical role in transporting a greenhouse gas deep into the deep sea, scientists report. The ...

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