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Clearly beautiful
The ghostly vertebrates
with no backbone
Salps are mysterious, gelatinous
creatures that have been described as
‘balls of goo’. They are actually barrel-
shaped animals that propel themselves
through the oceans by contracting their
bodies. Although they look like jellyfish
they are more closely related to humans.
Labelled as vertebrates, juveniles have
a spinal cord that disintegrates with
age. The spiral is produced by chains of
adults forming colonies.
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