Plankton are mostly microscopic algae and animals found throughout Earth's oceans, seas and lakes, although a few species are visible to humans. Unlike fish, plankton can't swim against the current.

Princeton University and Xiamen University researchers report that in tropical and subtropical oligotrophic waters, ocean ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...

The ocean covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but scientists say we have barely scratched the surface of what lives in ...

Each species has its own way of dealing with light, and uses different strategies for surviving sudden changes in their conditions. "We need to understand how these phytoplankton respond in order ...

a zooplankton ecologist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, was out hunting these tiny creatures. He aims to ...

Researchers at Rice University have uncovered a critical link between rising temperatures and declines in a species' population, shedding new light on how global warming threatens natural ecosystems.

Each species has its own way of dealing with light, and uses different strategies for surviving sudden changes in their conditions. "We need to understand how these phytoplankton respond in order ...