Swim along the edge of a coral reef and you'll often see schools of sleek, torpedo-shaped fishes gliding through the currents ...

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.

One hypothesis for solving "the paradox of the plankton," as it's known, comes from terrestrial systems. Many animals exhibit distinct activity cycles, including diurnal rhythms of foraging that ...

Ever since Charles Darwin, scientists have assumed species facing the same problem often evolve similar traits. But that’s ...