Plankton form the base of marine and freshwater food webs. They consist of phytoplankton (plants) and zooplankton (animals). Their name derives from the Greek word for “drifter”, since they are too ...

The unexpected discovery of “ghost” fossils belonging to tiny, ancient organisms could provide insights about how life reacts to climate change in Earth’s oceans. Looking through a powerful microscope ...

Insights from innovative device could provide a new window into secrets of microscopic ocean life and their effects on crucial planetary processes, such as carbon fixation. Like spirits passing ...

“Orange Playing Cards” (each cell is about .08 millimeters long) “S” (cell is about .12 millimeters long) The oceans and coastal waters of the world are teeming with plankton, which is a word often ...

Researchers from South Korea have developed a new holographic microscope that provides 3D imaging and high resolution of a living mouse's brain, Interesting Engineering reported. A plankton analyst ...

Richard Kirby, a marine biologist based in Plymouth, England, was looking at zooplankton wriggling under a microscope when he spotted something else: shreds of plastic pieces interlaced with the tiny ...

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