Yet these tiny organisms — called plankton — may be unable to thrive in the rapidly warming oceans, according to a pair of ...

Scientists have compared data from the last ice age, around 21,000 years ago, and modern records to see what happened to ...

They may not look as impressive as whales or sharks, but they are responsible for much of the food that we eat and even the air that we breathe. Plankton include lots of different kinds of living ...

Giant plankton eat and transport plastic through the ocean Giant larvaceans -- bizarre and beautiful zooplankton -- can transport ocean plastic and may introduce it into the food chain.

“Since zooplankton eat algae and fish eat zooplankton, we would expect a disruption in this food chain … that might lead to ...

Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Sharks mostly eat other marine animals, often invertebrates, or plankton. Their diet consists of small fish, mollusks, ...

Some plankton eat other plankton. That in turn gets eaten by fish and then marine mammals, so energy transfers further up the food chain. As it photosynthesises, phytoplankton is also a natural ...