Salps are technically a microplankton that can exist as solo creatures in the sea, but more often link up to form long chains that can stretch to be up to 15 ft (about 4.5 m) long.

Throughout the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, there are marine organisms that resemble buckets of snot. These creatures are ...

Oddly enough - The bizarre species - called sea salps - have characteristics of both jellyfishes and a slug - two things that generally do not go together. According to researchers, ...

Some onlookers speculated the creatures are sea salps, barrel-shaped animals that look like jellyfish but have dorsal nerve cords. They pump water through their bodies to move and feed on ...

Small sea creatures known as salps may have a role in global warming by locking up carbon in surface seas and sending it to the depths of the ocean. By prevening carbon from re-entering the ...

Sea salps, slugs, aliens? T his pink gelatinous creature, pictured Tuesday on the sand in Huntington Beach, is a burrowing sea cucumber, according to a UC Irvine professor.

Pink, gelatinous sea creatures washing up in Huntington Beach this week have beachgoers and officials scratching their heads. The small, pod-like critters, which slither and burrow into the sand ...

Sea salps are believed to be the fastest growing multicellular animal on Earth. Sea salps can reach maturity after just 48 hours, increasing their body length by 10 per cent per hour.

The sea salps like to hang out with their buddies the pyrosomes, pictured below. What a bunch of ugly barrel-shaped things they are. The sea salp.

Sea salps -- gelantinous, marine organisms that look like jellyfish -- may be small, typically measuring less than 10 centimeters tall. But the tiny creatures are turning out to be a major pest to ...