Factoid/2012/07/06
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A Salp Bloom is in Progress
- "What looks like a jellyfish but is closely related to humans? The answer is an oceanic animal called a salp. Salps are essentially transparent jet-propelled tubes. Their life cycle alternates between solitary swimmers, each smaller than your hand, and aggregated colonies that can grow longer than a bus." - excerpts from KQED report.
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