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

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

Phytoplankton produce around 50% of the world's oxygen. So every second breath we take comes from marine algae, while the rest comes from plants on land. Some plankton eat other plankton. That in turn ...

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 ...

Even for those who forgo eating fish, plankton are crucial for preventing climate change from getting even worse than it is. When foraminifera form their shells, they bind carbon with calcium to ...

As global warming and climate change persist, the melting of ice in lakes poses severe and misunderstood threats to ...

In a strange episode in the animal kingdom, a captive marine animal merged with another of its kind to become a single ...

The Salema Porgy, a fish found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, is known for its hallucinogenic ...