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Uploaded by on Feb 17, 2009

We're all connected. Four inch sea salps link together to make luminous chains up to fifteen feet long!

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  • I can't wait til the dolphins of the world start linking themselves together like that to create a giant sea dwelling death colony.

  • You know what's ironic - they're chordates, which means that they belong to a phylum which is distinguished by being vertebrates, yet attached together they look like a floating spine.

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  • I made up a random word SALP and wrote it down in my notebook. This isn't quite what I was expecting from my random creation but it'll do

  • he said living diamond necklace because "living" pearl necklace means something different...

  • I saw one in the ocean yesterday. So interesting - I thought it was a halloween mask at first.

  • Spine of vertebrates evolved from such colony.

  • awesome!

    it's like there's nothing in them but then they're living

  • Now that's what I call a party!

  • wow... amazing!

  • I'm one of the few people who know what salp is! YAY! We had "The day of the salp" at the beah where tons of salp washed up and made the beach all slippery LOL! It was in the water too.And unfourtuneatly also in my hair (excuse spelling).

  • What a fun life for them.

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