Rapid sea ice loss and ocean acidification from climate change are altering the growth and nutritional value of microscopic ...
A tiny parasite is leading Australian scientists to rethink how they view Antarctic food chains, after a research showed these microscopic organisms were present in quantities far larger than ...
50 million years ago, the phorusrhacid, a 2-meter-high carnivore, was at the top of the food chain ... now know that the ...
That suggests all these other animals that eat krill will face much more intense competition with each other for this important food resource," Simeon Hill from the British Antarctic Survey told ...
“Cryptopygus antarcticus has a key role in the simple Antarctic terrestrial ... which can become concentrated in animals towards the top of the marine food chain, is poisonous at high levels ...
Krill live in all the world's oceans, but mostly in the Antarctic. There may be up to ... Krill are important because they are at the base of the food chain: whales, penguins, seals and squid ...