It's believed that these shifting plankton patterns are connected to rising ocean temperatures. Scientists reveal troubling ...

The two most prominent types of plankton in the ocean are zooplankton, which are tiny animal organisms, and phytoplankton, which are plantlike. (Other forms of plankton include bacterial and fungal.

The strange clear blobs may resemble jellyfish, but salps are actually a kind of gelatinous zooplankton that can grow several inches long. Here’s what you need to know about salps, why they’re ...

Studying the feeding habits of zooplankton can provide new insights into both energy transfer and nutrient cycling. "Water fleas are often the most important grazers of algae in lakes, and they ...

Since late March, beachgoers have encountered hundreds of washed-up animals suffering from domoic acid poisoning with symptoms that include seizures, erratic and dangerous behavior and comas.

During cyanobacterial blooms, small-bodied zooplankton tend to dominate plankton communities, and past observational studies have attributed this pattern to anti-herbivore traits of cyanobacteria ...