Microscopic plankton are at the heart of the ocean’s food chain, feeding much bigger animals like whales. However, not much is known about how single-celled phytoplankton–most of which don’t ...

The science behind these luminous waves traces back to microscopic plankton called dinoflagellates, single-celled organisms ...

If you examine a sample of seawater under a microscope in spring, you will see tiny crustaceans known as copepods which spend their whole lives as plankton and are a key source of food for fish.

"It can happen quite suddenly, so if you sleep by the microscope for 10 minutes, you might miss it." To test what effects ...

Many plankton journey from the cold ... "It can happen quite suddenly, so if you sleep by the microscope for 10 minutes, you might miss it." This video shows dividing Pyrocystis noctiluca.

"It can happen quite suddenly, so if you sleep by the microscope for 10 minutes, you might miss it." To test what effects this rapid growth might have on the plankton, the research team utilized ...

They have no teeth and feed on microscopic plankton with their huge, wide-open mouths. They migrate between Scotland and waters around Madeira and the Canary Islands off west Africa. Until 1994 ...

Supported by By Veronique Greenwood The ocean is filled with microscopic creatures that thrive in the sunshine. These bacteria and plankton periodically clump up with detritus, like waste produced ...