The animals we best know as fish food help to store millions of tons of carbon in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

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

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

Zooplankton like copepods aren’t just fish food—they’re carbon-hauling powerhouses. By diving deep into the ocean each winter ...

Researchers from the University of Maine and Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences have demonstrated a new approach to ...

The crustacean known as the shrimp is closely related to lobsters and crabs, but it has plenty of variety within its more ...

Despite their microscopic size, plankton are crucial for marine ecosystems. They act as the base of the entire food chain in oceans and freshwater. Plankton are microscopic living organisms that drift ...

Researchers are hoping a technique that identifies zooplankton from space will eventually help them track the movement of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales in the Gulf of Maine.

Some phytoplankton blooms grow so big, so quickly, that when they eventually decay, they deplete oxygen in the surrounding water, creating “dead zones” where nothing else can live. And some ...

Find the level at which the plankton are in the water column, and you’ll probably find panfish as well. Zooplankton propel themselves with tiny appendages.

Aubrey Trapp, Jan Heuschele, Erik Selander, Eavesdropping on plankton—can zooplankton monitoring improve forecasting of biotoxins from harmful algae blooms?, Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 66, No. 9 ...

“Zooplankton are eating and pooping machines,” Sharma says. “When you slice apart their poop, you see the remains of all these phytoplankton that have not been digested.” ...