How are you supposed to understand an animal that you can’t touch? To survey the dark depths of the sea, scientists need new vantage points and new ways of seeing.
, which researchers had struggled to understand for decades. How did its body parts fit together, and why? What was the purpose of the netlike film that surrounded the animal? In the controlled setting of a laboratory, Katija might have reconstructed its anatomy by taking a high-speed video of particles flowing through and around the creature. But she could see that the giant larvacean would likely disintegrate if she tried to capture it.
Gelata may be a fundamental kind of underwater life. They evolved early and often in Earth’s history; they seem to drift effortlessly, in and of the ocean in a way that blurs the boundary between body and world. Other soft-bodied sea animals, such as octopuses and squid, evolved independently but seem to have converged on a similar anatomy.
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