In our new research, published today in Nature, we explored the ability of tiny marine organisms called plankton to adapt 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 ... it needs to survive. To do this effectively phytoplankton floats near ...

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, ...

Yet these tiny organisms — called plankton — may be unable to thrive in the rapidly warming oceans, according to a pair of new studies. The decline of these microscopic creatures puts huge ...

A jar of krill specimens with visible eye spots. Blue whales eat huge volumes of these small crustaceans. Blue whales eat krill - tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans that live throughout Earth's oceans. The ...

These algae (phytoplankton) and animals (zooplankton) are transported by ocean currents as they do not actively swim ... while the rest comes from plants on land. Some plankton eat other plankton.

Yet these tiny organisms - called plankton - may be unable to thrive in the rapidly warming oceans, according to a pair of new studies. The decline of these microscopic creatures puts huge ...