Sea creatures’ sticky ‘mucus houses’ catch ocean carbon really fast
New deepwater laser tool measures filtering power of giant larvaceans’ snot bubbles
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MUCUS HOUSE The pale inner house (rounded flank in foreground) as well as a big, stickier outer envelope of a larvacean’s shelter could be important in ocean carbon cycles.
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