The loss of this red plankton would weaken almost all predators at the top levels of the food chain. NASA are tracking ...

The study cited by the Instagram post has not been peer-reviewed Marine biologists and oceanographers have not observed any dramatic reduction in the plankton population in the Atlantic Ocean or ...

The BBC’s Planet Earth and SpongeBob Squarepants have teamed up for a nifty little video where they explained a vital living creature whose existence we may have taken for granted. As one of the ...

Creating new scientific models of plankton is "critical" to understanding the scale of global climate change, a new paper argues. The article, led by Plymouth Marine Laboratory's Professor Kevin Flynn ...

Plankton may be Spongebob Squarepant’s nemesis but BBC Earth and Nickelodeon have now teamed up for this new video to show Spongebob and the world why Plankton and his pals are actually pretty ...

Planktonportal is a new online citizen science project to engage the public’s help in identifying planktonic creature images collected by an underwater robotic camera. Plankton is the basis of our ...

This study included 12 sampling sites along the coast of Georgia, USA (Figure 1). The study sites were representative of two distinct estuaries, Sapelo Sound and Wassaw Sound. Typical of the South ...

Fuzzy mammals, chirping birds and other hallmarks of children's books are absent in "Adventures of Captain Fishhook Waterflea: the Invasion of Lake Champlain." Its creators want to get the word out ...

People say size doesn't matter, and that may be true for tiny plankton, those free-floating ocean plants that make up the bottom of the marine food-chain. Little plankton may be able to change the ...

Plankton is so hot right now. You may have heard about the stuff that floats around the sea---tiny plant-like organisms called phytoplankton and beasties like small crustaceans called ...