Scientists have discovered giant sinking mucus "houses" that double the amount of food on the sea floor. The mucus houses, or "sinkers," are produced by tadpole-like animals not much bigger than ...

LiveScience: Giant balls of sinking snot may explain mystery of why there's so much life at the bottom of the ocean. Tadpole-like animals spin a mucus web that they then sit in and use to filter food.

GIANT SIFTER A larvacean’s beating tail sieves food from seawater. The creature draws water through a loose outer envelope of mucus and then a pair of flared inner channels — all disposable ...

Mucus helps deep-sea scavengers get enough to eat, say scientists who have spent 10 years studying ocean-dwelling, web-spinning creatures called giant larvaceans. They publish their research in ...

There, the poop and old mucus-shrouds feed bottom-dwelling sea creatures. It’s like a giant, oceanic, digestive system where nothing gets wasted — and where food gets grosser as it travels ...

A giant ‘snot’ jellyfish that washed ashore in Australia is baffling scientists, who say it could be a new species.

2 The girl's sinus is being cleaned out with a saline solution Credit: [email protected] The young girl has a sinus infection and her nasal cavity is full to capacity with mucus.

Mucus helps deep-sea scavengers get enough to eat, say scientists who have spent 10 years studying ocean-dwelling, web-spinning creatures called giant larvaceans. They publish their research in ...