Methylmercury gets stuck in phytoplankton, small fish eat the phytoplankton, those smaller fish are eaten by larger fish, and those larger fish are eaten by even larger fish until there's a ...

Fish and seafood can be a more environmentally friendly protein choice than other animal foods like beef, pork, and chicken.

marine-plastic-ocean-fish-microplasticThe naturally oily surface slicks in which many ocean fish come of age are rich in plankton and other ... and the animals that eat them, depend on just ...

Phytoplankton use the sun’s energy and CO₂ to produce organic matter and half of the atmosphere’s oxygen. It’s thanks to these microscopic organisms that we breathe and eat fish.

This effect, called ichthyoallyeinotoxism, may be due to the fish ingesting toxic seagrass phytoplankton. Such hallucinations have likened its effects to LSD. Image credits: iStock The world under ...

And because it is a very large animal that depends on a very small, even microscopic food source—plankton—the fish has to eat virtually all the time. Swimming through a plankton cloud ...