A new study led by researchers at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) discovered microplastics in krill (Euphausia superba), a small shrimp-like crustacean, and salps (Salpa thompsoni), a gelatinous ...

A huge fraction of global flows of carbon and other nutrients pass through marine microbes. Little is known about their causes of death, however. This information determines where those nutrients will ...

The ocean is full of animals that look like they came straight from a sci-fi movie, and sea salps may be among the strangest of them all. Although people often mistake sea salps for jellyfish, they're ...

Salps are creatures that drift through the ocean with transparent, barrel-shaped bodies. Most of their body is water, and in ...

What looks like a jellyfish but is closely related to humans? The answer is an oceanic animal called a salp, and right now the waters off California are teeming with unprecedented numbers of these ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ocean is full of animals that look like they came straight from a sci-fi movie, and sea salps may be among the strangest of them all. A video by creator Matt Rockhold (@MattRockhold) offers a ...