Sometimes new parents get lucky. They get “easy” babies. Young sunflower sea stars are the fussy kind—but their adoptive ...

Yet these tiny organisms — called plankton — may be unable to thrive in the rapidly warming oceans, according to a pair of ...

A new study highlights how some marine life could face extinction over the next century, if human-induced global warming ...

single-celled species of algal plankton, during its seven-day life cycle. Cells of P. noctiluca are normally around 5% denser than sea water. But after cell division, the two new cells selectively ...