400m Deep: Watching a Giant Larvacean Create Its Incredible Filter House
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No hooks or lines, just a sinker. 😬 ⁠⠀ This deep-sea parachute is actually a discarded larvacean house. Larvaceans build balloon-like structures called “houses,” which concentrate food by filtering tiny particles out of the surrounding seawater. Over time, their filters become overloaded with particles, and the larvacean abandons its house. The cast-off larvacean house eventually deflates like a punctured balloon and sinks rapidly toward the seafloor, carrying large amounts of detritus as well
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No hooks or lines, just a sinker. 😬 ⁠⠀ This deep-sea parachute is actually a discarded larvacean house. Larvaceans build balloon-like structures called “houses,” which concentrate food by filtering tiny particles out of the surrounding seawater. Over time, their filters become overloaded with particles, and the larvacean abandons its house. The cast-off larvacean house eventually deflates like a punctured balloon and sinks rapidly toward the seafloor, carrying large amounts of detritus as well
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See how a giant Larvacean’s intricate mucus house, constructed for filter feeding, contributes to oceanic carbon cycling. | Scientific American
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See how a giant Larvacean’s intricate mucus house, constructed for filter feeding, contributes to oceanic carbon cycling. | Scientific American
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Larvaceans—the masters of mucus. 🏰✨️⁠ ⁠ Larvaceans build balloon-like structures called “houses,” which concentrate food by filtering tiny particles out of the surrounding seawater. These snot palaces are made up of two filters and function as an elaborate feeding apparatus. The outer filter traps larger particles too big for the animal to eat, while the inner filter guides smaller food particles into the larvacean’s mouth. ⁠ ⁠ Eventually, the filters get clogged, and the larvacean abandons the
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Igor Adameyko on Instagram: "The escape of a larvacean from its mucus house: a rare moment to see! Skagerrak, North Sea. Larvaceans are chordates building complex mucus structures that serve as sophisticated filters for their food (mostly phytoplankton). The beating tail of the larvacean provides both sucking and propulsion forces, driving the whole structure in a water column. At the moment of danger, the animal abandons the structure and later builds a new one. These sophisticated organisms li
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Meet the redhead larvacean (Mesochordaeus erythrocephalus), an astounding deep-sea climate hero.⁠ ⁠ Larvaceans are small tadpole-shaped animals. Most construct complex mucous houses that help them capture food. These structures function by filtering marine snow—drifting bits of dead plankton, poop, and other organic material sinking from the waters above. ⁠ ⁠ When a larvacean’s filters become clogged with particles, or if they sense danger approaching, they will ditch their mucous home and swim
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Life in a snot palace 🏰✨️ Larvaceans, like this redhead larvacean (Mesochordaeus erythrocephalus), build mucous houses that function as elaborate feeding devices. The outer filter can be much bigger than the smaller animal that lives at its center. Larvaceans eat tiny particles of dead or drifting plants and animals that float through the water column. The larger filter traps particles that are too big for the animal to eat, while the smaller inner filter guides perfectly-sized food particles i
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