The two most prominent types of plankton in the ocean are zooplankton, which are tiny animal organisms, and phytoplankton, which are plantlike. (Other forms of plankton include bacterial and fungal.

The oceans teem with photosynthesizing bacteria, tiny-tailed dinoflagellates gobbling other plankton, algae surrounded by ...

SeaWorld San Diego says rescuers are currently treating nine sea lions that were poisoned with domoic acid; one of the marine ...

Climate change may also affect plankton numbers. As a slow-growing species that produces very few young, basking sharks are particularly vulnerable to extinction, which is why the animal is listed ...

Humans are living in a plankton world. These minuscule organisms ... They are eaten by zooplankton, the smallest animals of the ocean, which, in turn, feed fish and larger creatures.

Image caption, This is one type of plankton viewed through a microscope. In fact, many scientists believe that these tiny plants and animals are amongst the most important in our seas. They may ...