While all salps use a jet propulsion system in which they take in, filter, and then expel water, the team found that smaller chains of the creatures moved in spiral patterns the way in which a ...

Salp abundance in the Southern Ocean was documented to have substantially increased in the southern area of their range between 1920-2000. If the trend persists, “we can expect important changes in ...

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 ...

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 ...