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Swimmers share sea with Salps

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Some of the region’s beachgoers found themselves swimming in what felt like a sea of gelatinous bubble tea at the weekend. Sarah Curtis investigates . . .

While many feared the weird gelatinous globules bobbing all around them might have been jellyfish, a biologist with the National Institute of Water and Atmosphere Research (NIWA) Dr Svenja Halfter has confirmed the creatures were salps – a...


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