A tiny, obscure animal often sold as aquarium food has been quietly protecting our planet from global warming by undertaking ...

Scientists have discovered Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, a unique archaeon residing within marine plankton, challenging traditional definitions of life. Th ...

Creating new scientific models of plankton is "critical" to understanding the scale of global climate change, a new paper ...

Growing large fish in ponds usually begins by first growing tiny plankton. Plankton is a broad term that includes very small ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed a new way of analyzing fossils, allowing them to see how creatures ...

Plankton are vital to planetary and climate stability and are therefore important contributors to human well-being.