Unlike fish, plankton can't swim against the current. Instead, they drift through the water, floating at the will of the ...

Image caption, This murky looking water contains loads of plankton. If the sea near you looks a bit green or brown this is a great sign as it means there is plenty of plankton drifting around.

They’re named for the Greek word planktos, meaning to drift or float ... Warming water because of climate change can have the same effects. Plankton are also threatened by microplastics ...

For another, they all share the same challenge of having to spot and suck out small prey from the water ... targeting plankton. Perhaps this flexibility shouldn't surprise us. After all, all reef ...

There you’ll see a vast array of vanishingly small plankton, including crustaceans ... pieces of non-kosher creatures floating in the New York City tap water. The answer was yes.

Floating sea anemones are rarely seen on land because they spend their lives drifting in the open ocean, clinging to floating ...

All this water gave the previously hot and dry climate ... and mollusks flourished. Microscopic, free-floating plankton proliferated and may have turned parts of the ocean red.

Ever since Charles Darwin, scientists have assumed species facing the same problem often evolve similar traits. But that’s not always the case.

For another, they all share the same challenge of having to spot and suck out small prey from the water column ... fishes begin their lives as plankton feeders, floating in the open ocean before ...