New international research led by Professors Willy Baeyens and Yue Gao of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), published in ...

They drift aimlessly at sea, soaking up sunlight from the sky and nutrients from the deep. Often invisible to the naked eye, these tiny invertebrates form the hidden backbone of ocean ecosystems ...

Some larger jellyfish are considered planktonic. Plankton are the building blocks of life in the sea. Everything depends on them. Phytoplankton are microscopic plants that can be as small as one cell.

Creating new scientific models of plankton is "critical" to understanding the scale of global climate change, a new paper argues. The article, led by Plymouth Marine Laboratory's Professor Kevin Flynn ...

The study cited by the Instagram post has not been peer-reviewed Marine biologists and oceanographers have not observed any dramatic reduction in the plankton population in the Atlantic Ocean or ...

"Plankton: The Movie" follows the "SpongeBob SquarePants" character as his computer wife Karen tries to take over the world. It's pretty terrible.

The claim: Plankton in the Atlantic Ocean is 90% gone The plankton in the world’s oceans are being affected by climate change, according to experts, but a claim spreading on social media gives a ...

Scientists monitor phytoplankton levels across the ocean’s surface as an indicator of how these essential ocean communities are responding to changes in climate.

It's spring, the sun is shining and something is about to happen with the plankton in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean. Long bright days and rising temperatures have awakened the phytoplankton ...

Life Spotlight on plankton, the ocean's fascinating, bite-sized creatures Every night, plankton take a journey to shallower waters to feed, prompting predators to follow in search of a very small ...

Warming waters are causing the colors of the ocean to change -- a trend that could impact humans if it were to continue, according to new research.

Plankton are also adapted to their environments, and are very sensitive to changes in their conditions, such as differences in pH, temperature, or nutrient levels. Excess nutrients can lead to ...