Organism gives sea its distinctive smell and promotes creation of clouds, thereby playing a significant role in global ...

Some beaches, which are known for their tranquil surroundings, sparkle because of bioluminescent species. With bioluminescent ...

Yet these tiny organisms — called plankton — may be unable to thrive in the rapidly warming oceans, according to a pair of new studies. The decline of these microscopic creatures puts huge ...

Plankton live in the top few metres of ocean. These algae (phytoplankton) and animals (zooplankton) are transported by ocean currents as they do not actively swim. Some data suggest that current ...

The bioluminescence, often observed on clear nights, comes from plankton in the shallow waters ... of bioluminescent algae that thrives in warm ocean currents. This island, part of the Yucatán ...

The bioluminescence created by plankton, those teeny tiny ocean animals that have long bewitched anyone in the vicinity of ...

Bathydevius caudactylus swims through the ocean's midnight zone with a large gelatinous hood and paddle-like tail, and lights up with brilliant bioluminescence. The team published a description of ...

Usually, sea slugs use their rough tongues to scrape food off the seafloor. But this mysterious, bioluminescent mollusk uses its hood to snatch its food mid-swim. Researchers still aren't sure how ...

Recent research has shed light on the pivotal yet often underestimated role that tiny ocean plankton, measuring less than 0.02 millimeters in diameter, play in maintaining the health of our planet and ...

“I’ve taken samples in the last week that had 5 to 20 million cells per liter of seawater, relative to our usual background ...