Plankton may be tiny, but they play an important role in the ocean. As the foundation of marine ecosystems, they support ...

spawned giant plankton blooms, and sent a burst of oxygen into the atmosphere. The new study has revealed details as to how oxygen came to vanish from Earth's ancient atmosphere during the ...

3. Giant oarfish eat tiny plankton and aren’t dangerous. Although oarfish were likely the source of many historic tales of sea serpents and sea monsters, they are hardly dangerous to people.

Only about 370 of these massive creatures remain. For decades, tracking the tiny plankton meant sending research vessels out in the ocean, towing nets and counting samples by hand. Now ...

Prehistoric seas were filled with giant plankton-eating fish which died out at the same time as the dinosaurs, new fossil evidence suggests. Scientists from Glasgow, Oxford and the United States have ...

Likely measuring more than 5 meters (16 ft) in length, Titanichthys was a giant armored fish that swam ... quantities of small organisms such as plankton. "We have found that Titanichthys was ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The sea in eastern Thailand has been affected by a plankton bloom that has resulted in massive wildlife deaths. More from News The sea in eastern Thailand has been ...