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Wednesday scientists near California’s Monterey Bay have found that, through this process, giant larvaceans can filter all of the bay’s water from about 300 to 1,000 feet deep in less than two weeks, making them the fastest known zooplankton filter feeders. In doing so, the creatures help transfer carbon that has been removed from the atmosphere by photosynthesizing organisms to the deep sea, where it can be buried and stored long term. And given their abundance in other parts of the world, these organisms likely play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle.

Traveling at more than 70,000 miles per hour as it passed within 2,000 miles of the cloud tops, and a chance hit with a sand grain could be trouble The an alysis indicated that the chances of such a collision were slim, but still risky enough that mission managers did not send Cassini here until the mission’s final months. As a better-safe-than-sorry precaution, the spacecraft was pointed .

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Swimming hundreds of feet beneat the ocean’s surface in many parts of the world are prolific architects called giant larvaceans. These zooplankton are not particulay giant themselves (they resemble tadpoles and are about the size of a pinkie finger), but every day, they construct one or more spacious .

Understand how the system works we have to look at all the players involved Giant larvaceans are one important group we need to learn more about.” In the past, oth always failed because the animals’ houses were too fragile to be harvested and coll ected specimens were never able to build houses outside the ocean.