Bizarre Sea Creature Could Teach Humans to Do the Locomotion

A gelatinous sea creature called a salp knows this better than anyone, forming long chains of neurologically connected individuals that work together for the greater good. That is, eating and not dying. A new study helps unravel the complexities of the salp's jet-powered, aggregate lifestyle, showing how a creature that's actually dozens of individuals manages to get around at all. Salps have a goofy way of going about life. Each individual in a chain can reproduce sexually to produce a solitary individual, which you can think of as a barrel.