A newly described species from Hawaiʻi hides itself with carcasses to avoid getting eaten by spiders. Newly described bone collector caterpillars build a silken case around their bodies and adorn ...

We also suggested that a warming climate will simultaneously enhance the productivity of large phytoplankton, such as diatoms, in coastal regions, owing to increased wind-driven upwelling 1.

A common neurotoxin produced by algae blooms is making California sea lions more aggressive. Here’s why it has the power to change behavior—and the danger it poses. Rescuers capture a sick sea ...

But fish don’t seem to mind. They cheerfully survive blooms of the marine diatom Pseudo-nitzschia, the algae behind domoic acid production. These microscopic phytoplankton have repaid humanity for ...

The container holds the fossilized shells of countless diatoms, single-celled algae that inhabit oceans, lakes and other bodies of water. Like other phytoplankton, diatoms convert carbon dioxide ...

In this immersive experience, the scales are flipped: diatoms, a little-studied microalgae responsible for generating the oxygen in every fourth breath we take, are magnified to become ...

“These microfibers are found everywhere, no matter the lake or population density.” Fibrous algae called Cladophora and microfibers with diatoms at 10x magnification. (Courtesy of Valparaiso ...

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ECOMARE and Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar (CESAM) and Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Aveiro 3810-193, Portugal ...