Sensors attached to animals gather valuable data to track and mitigate the human influence on marine life. A Kobe University ...

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.

Guitar sharks, mud dragons, water bears and - sorry, arachnophobes - sea spiders. Those are just a few of the new species recently discovered by a global research initiative called Ocean Census, which ...

Global warming is causing alterations in ocean chemistry and many oceanic processes, and it is threatening many species of marine animals that cannot cope with higher temperatures. Overfishing is ...

They are Calanus finmarchicus, a type of zooplankton, animals that drift in the ocean’s currents and tides. In the North Atlantic, Calanus funnel energy from the sun and phytoplankton into ...