Britain's seas are rich in wildlife, but many of its species can only be seen with a microscope. These are the plankton—tiny ...

Plankton are a collection of tiny organisms ... Many phytoplankton are microscopic, and they range from single-celled algae to bacteria to protists, which aren’t plants or animals.

Today is World Manta Day, a day to celebrate these majestic marine creatures and raise awareness of the threats they’re ...

Image caption, This is one type of plankton viewed through a microscope. In fact, many scientists believe that these tiny plants and animals are amongst the most important in our seas. They may ...

Britain’s seas are rich in wildlife, but many of its species can only be seen with a microscope. These are the plankton – ...

A microscope image of a shelled plankton. According to research from The University of Texas at Austin, plankton populations like this flourished in the tropics during past global cooling and may ...

Plankton may be tiny, microscopic creatures invisible to the naked eye, but they sustain our oceans. Without them life as we know it would cease to exist.

A supplement contextualizes key advances in light microscopy over 400 years, while the Tara expedition sets sail to explore oceanic ecosystems at the microscopic level. Microscopes were also in ...