Scoop up a cup of water anywhere on Earth, and you will find strange, entrancing life-forms called plankton.From brilliantly colored blobs to miniature monsters adorned with tentacles and gigantic ...

Photographer Jan van IJken. THESE mesmerising shots reveal the microscopic beauty of plankton – and their predators. They are part of a film and photo project called Planktonium by photographer ...

Giant plankton gains long-due attention Date: April 21, 2016 Source: CNRS Summary: A team of marine biologists and oceanographers have revealed the importance in all the world's oceans of a group ...

See the microscopic universe that lives in a single drop of water. Driven by what he calls an “insane passion,” Angel Fitor photographs the minuscule organisms that dwell in the Mediterranean Sea.

During drier months, visitors can actually walk on the salt lake. — -- A popular salt lake in Turkey recently turned a deep red color thanks to an enormous bloom of Dunaliella salinas algae ...

Update 8:52 am EST, 7/21: Howard Dryden reached out to me to express his dismay at having been misquoted by the Sunday Post, which should have reported a "90% reduction in marine plankton in the ...

Plankton may be tiny, but they play an important role in the ocean. As the foundation of marine ecosystems, they support ocean food webs and help regulate Earth's climate by storing carbon.