Giant plankton gains long-due attention Date: April 21, 2016 Source: CNRS Summary: A team of marine biologists and oceanographers have revealed the importance in all the world's oceans of a group ...

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 ...

The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute captured footage of a giant phantom jelly with ribbon-like arms over 30 feet ...

This bizarre marine giant may have only been possible, thanks to a major revolution among some of the tiniest organisms in the world.

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.

Its waters contain plankton, jellyfish, sargassum weed, dolphin and wahoo. But its stars are giant bluefin tuna, weighing 300 to 600 pounds. “The Gulf Stream doesn’t discriminate with regard ...

Today, I’m surrounded by dozens of the giant plankton-eaters. About a decade ago, Yucatan fishermen discovered that whale sharks were congregating in the warm waters off the coast. The sharks ...

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 ...

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 ...