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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This summer, a pair of kayakers in Orange County came across some extremely odd-looking creatures — gelatinous inch-long blobs, so transparent you could see their hearts beating, strung together in ...

A close-up of a colony of salps swimming in the ocean off the coast of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Credit: Brad Gemmell Salps are small, transparent barrel-shaped jelly creatures. They are sometimes confused ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’ve been to a beach in the Grand Strand lately, you might have noticed thousands of little clear blobs scattered across the ...

Early one morning last week I was collecting specimens for the Oceanarium on the dock in Seabrook harbor and was astounded to find millions, possibly billions, of tiny ctenophores. They were comb ...

Experts have experimentally measured the release of iron from the fecal pellets of krill and salps under natural conditions and tested its bioavailability using a natural community of microalgae in ...