Fossil plankton from half a billion years ago. These tiny algae measure much less than a millimetre in size. They evolved their colonial structure to…
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A microscope image of a shelled plankton. According to research from The University of Texas at Austin, plankton populations like this flourished in the tropics…
Many deep-sea organisms are able to emit ‘living light’ through a chemical reaction, bringing light to the otherwise total darkness of the deep ocean. Bioluminescent…
Corals display glowing colors (fluorescence). Credit: Tel Aviv University Researchers have proved for the first time that corals’ fluorescent colors are intended to attract prey.…
Sweet spots of tropical biomass production emerge where favorable ocean conditions concentrate resources, and also their consumers. Here, schools of sweetlips, snappers, fusiliers, and unicornfishes…
The weird and wonderful genome of dinoflagellates looks nothing like other eukaryotic genomes. The genome of single-celled plankton, known as dinoflagellates, is organized in an…
The study examined plankton in freshwater ponds exposed to seven years of experimental warming. Credit: University of Exeter Rising temperatures could reduce the efficiency of…