This strange and mesmerizing sea creature can age in reverse when times get tough, in a move that would make Benjamin Button ...

A new paper in PNAS shows that the idea of “taking turns” could help resolve the 1960s paradox of the plankton — and better ...

In spring, the sea is full of planktonic crab larvae, flicking their tails to swim as they hunt small copepods and other plankton. Crab larvae don't look like adult crabs: they have huge spines on ...

Plankton is the name given to a collection of tiny sea life that lives in the ocean. These minute organisms may be small, but they have a big role to play in maintaining the health of our oceans.

Temperatures were set to simulate changes in water temperature likely to occur in the sea area where the plankton was collected. The experiment showed that zooplankton species with low ...

I’m not going to even attempt to discern why Netflix stakes claim to SpongeBob SquarePants spinoff movies like this new one, ...

with SpongeBob and Plankton trying to prevent it (the other characters aren’t in it much). It doesn’t make a lot of sense but ...