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If you’re a beach goer, you might recognize those little crystal- clear blobs that often wash up on the sand in the mornings as salps. While often mistaken for jellyfish, they’re actually the ocean’s “vacuum cleaners,” sucking up all kinds of particles as food and excreting carbon-rich pellets that sink to the sea floor. Researchers know that the fairly benign creatures are actually quite important for carbon capture and storage in the oceans, but recent discoveries on what they eat show … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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