A Dartmouth-led study proposes a new method for recruiting trillions of microscopic sea creatures called zooplankton in the fight against climate change by converting carbon into food the animals ...

Have you seen the clear, gelatinous creatures all over Grand Strand beaches? Here’s what the blobs are and why they’re ...

Researchers at Rice University have uncovered a critical link between rising temperatures and declines in a species' ...

The two most prominent types of plankton in the ocean are zooplankton, which are tiny animal organisms, and phytoplankton, which are plantlike. (Other forms of plankton include bacterial and fungal.

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Although a single penguin is capable of devouring thousands of krill in a single sitting, swarms of the zooplankton may detect ...

Since marine zooplankton respond to the available light, this is also changing their behavior—especially how ... As an international team of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has ...

Researchers say the species of zooplankton that the fish feed on is becoming beyond their reach as sea temperatures continue to rise. “As the planet becomes warmer, Pacific saury will probably ...

During cyanobacterial blooms, small-bodied zooplankton tend to dominate plankton communities, and past observational studies have attributed this pattern to anti-herbivore traits of cyanobacteria ...