"What The Heck Is This Long, Hypnotic Stringy Thing Floating in The Ocean? by Tessa Koumoundouros, ScienceAlert"

“There are some mysteries so big that they will take the whole world to solve them.”

“Bioluminescent Waves on California Coast have Turned into Red Tide that Smells Like Sulfur: Why is That? , Science Times”

“There are few contemporary reviews of whole-ocean neuston ecosystems. I started with smaller studies on specific animals and worked my way through their references. One reference, in Russian Cyrillic, came up again and again. This made sense. I knew the United States and the U.S.S.R. had both developed extensive oceanographic-research programs after World War II, but each region published in its own language, making overlap difficult. I sat with a librarian for nearly an hour, hunting this study down. Finally, we found it: a 1956 study published in the U.S.S.R., in Russian, by an oceanographer named A. I. Savilov. This led us to another study of his from 1968, mercifully translated into English. Savilov spent his career studying the neuston by conducting extensive surveys all across the Pacific and synthesizing this work into a map of the open-ocean surface ecosystems. Savilov described seven unique neuston meadows in the open ocean, each with its own unique composition of animals. Just as rainforests differ from temperate forests, these neustonic ecosystems are unique.”

“Ethereal ‘Sea Angel’ Slug Looks Like CGI Alien by Matthew Hart,”

“Watch: The scientific reason why baby octopuses ride jellyfish by Nina Pullano, Inverse”

“Experts warned this floating garbage collector wouldn’t work. The ocean proved them right. by Ben Guarino,”