Despite their microscopic size, plankton are crucial for marine ecosystems. They act as the base of the entire food chain in ...

Elusive Sea Dragon Caught Lurking in the Depths of the Ocean. ... The leafy seadragon’s diet mainly consists of small crustaceans like mysid shrimp and sea lice, as well as plankton and larval ...

Plankton comes in all sizes and shapes, from microscopic to several inches. Some larger jellyfish are considered planktonic. Plankton are the building blocks of life in the sea.

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.

Plankton comes in all sizes and shapes, from microscopic to several inches. Some larger jellyfish are considered planktonic. Plankton are the building blocks of life in the sea.

Blue moon! Sea lights up at night with stunning display of vivid bioluminescent plankton rarely seen in the UK. Dubbed 'Northern Lights of the ocean', the display is usually seen in the Maldives ...

Common sea dragons (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus) typically live at depths of around 13 to 20 feet (4 to 6 meters), though they can dive down to 160 feet (50 m), according to the Georgia Aquarium.

For nearly 27 years, the green Sea Dragon ride swung back and forth on the Santa Monica Pier, but on Thursday, the 6,000-pound two-headed metal beast took its last ride 250 feet over the Pacific ...

THE importance of studying the common plankton organisms is shown by Prof. Herdman in his “Spolia Runiana,”where, basing his results on more than ten years' systematic collecting and working ...

Plankton produces dimethyl sulphide, a vapour that is credited with giving the sea its distinctive smell but one that also promotes the creation of clouds, thereby playing a significant role in ...

In this experiment, the research team exposed plankton from the North Sea to both current conditions and the conditions projected by RCP 8.5—a "business as usual" scenario defined by the ...