THESE mesmerising shots reveal the microscopic beauty of plankton – and their predators. They are part of a film and photo project called Planktonium by photographer Jan van IJken, who captured this ...

The amount of carbon stored by microscopic plankton will increase in the coming century, predict researchers at the University of Bristol and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC). Like spirits ...

LA JOLLALA JOLLA — Validating a 50-year-old hypothesis, scientists at the University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Jacobs School of Engineering in La Jolla say they ...

Researchers have discovered dozens of new types of microscopic phytoplankton in Bermuda’s waters as part of a new study. According to the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences Currents newsletter, the ...

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This week at the Oceanarium, I was stopped short while explaining that the eggs from a crab hatch into larval stages and become plankton. The question that stopped me was, “What is plankton?” Now, my ...

The amount of carbon stored by microscopic plankton will increase in the coming century, predict researchers. The amount of carbon stored by microscopic plankton will increase in the coming century, ...

Most sea sponges are simple, yet ancient, animals that live in coral reef ecosystems. They feed by passively filtering ocean ...

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From a dragonfly to marine organisms, photographer Michael Benson zoomed in with powerful scanning electron microscopes to ...