They drift aimlessly at sea, soaking up sunlight from the sky and nutrients from the deep. Often invisible to the naked eye, these tiny invertebrates form the hidden backbone of ocean ecosystems.

Seeing bioluminescence is like fireflies - conditions have to be just right and there's a bit of luck involved, but these ...

The ocean’s smallest organisms could hold the biggest clues to Earth’s climate future. The ocean’s tiniest engineers, calcifying plankton, play a vital yet often unnoticed role in regulating Earth’s ...

Oceanic plankton have largely disappeared from the waters off Northern California, Oregon and Washington, mystifying scientists, stressing fisheries and causing widespread seabird mortality. The ...

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Do you like a planet that hasn’t yet melted? Do you like sushi? How about breathing? Then you’re secretly in love with plankton, tiny marine organisms that float around at the mercy of currents. They ...

Nearly century-old studies of marine plankton and the rise of manmade chemicals found in the ocean could be used to measure the impact on human activity on ecosystem health as well as study chronic ...

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Researchers have utilized ultrastructure expansion microscopy to reveal more about the cytoskeletal characteristics of the ...

Ocean warming caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions will prompt many species of marine plankton to seek out new habitats, in some cases as a matter of survival. Researchers expect many ...