This is a copepod nauplius. Credit: Ed Buskey/University of Texas Marine Science Institute Olympic swimmers aren't the only ones who change their strokes to escape competitors. To escape from the jaws ...

Copepods, particularly the genus Calanus spp., are among the most abundant metazoans in the ocean, play a pivotal role in transferring carbon energy from primary producers to higher trophic levels, ...

In the sea, fish feed on species lower in the food chain. Can these same species form the basis of a new feed industry supplying the fish farming sector? "This is very possible," says Ingrid Ellingsen ...