An Australian marine scientist says microplastics in the oceans pose a "significant risk" to filter-feeding marine animals like manta rays and whale sharks. A research paper, "Microplastics: No small ...

Aug 7 (Reuters) - The blue whale and other baleen whales, the gentle giants of the sea, sift huge quantities of tiny prey from ocean water using a filter-feeding system in their mouths. But they were ...

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Giant Larvaceans are small filter feeders in the ocean that trap tiny bits of food in order to survive, but a new study shows that food particles aren't all they're trapping. Plastic waste called ...

Some of the planet’s most extraordinary creatures glide silently through its depths. This documentary-style exploration ...

A new filter-feeding giant that trolled the Cambrian seas has been unearthed in Greenland. The species, dubbed Tamisiocaris borealis, used large, bristly appendages on its body to rake in tiny ...

Modern flamingos employ filter feeding and their feces are, as a result, rich in remains of microscopically-small aquatic prey. Very similar contents have been found in more than 150-million-year-old ...

Whales include the world's largest animals, but newly identified fossils reveal they were preceded by SUV-sized filter-feeding fishes that emerged during the Jurassic Period, 170 million years ago, ...

The first large filter feeders swam in the oceans for much longer than previously thought. In a study published today in Science, Matt Friedman, a palaeobiologist at the University of Oxford, UK, and ...

Nutrient recycling by consumers can strongly impact nutrient availability for autotrophic and heterotrophic microbes, thus impacting functions such as primary production and decomposition.

Unlike the blue whale, today's largest animal, Hupehsuchus was modest in size Artist's reconstruction shows the Triassic Period marine reptile Hupehsuchus nanchangensis, based on fossils unearthed in ...