Masses of shrimp and krill may play a huge role in mixing oceans
The swimmers’ turbulence could be powerful enough to stir nutrients up from the deep

MIXING IT UP One swimming brine shrimp generates small-scale turbulence (time lapse of suspended particles in green). But large numbers of the animals together may create currents that stir oceans.
Isabel Houghton
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