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They drift aimlessly at sea, soaking up sunlight from the sky and nutrients from the deep. Often invisible to the naked eye, these tiny invertebrates form the hidden backbone of ocean ecosystems.

Reading the science headlines this week, we have A LOT of questions. Why are more animals than just humans saddled — er, blessed — with vocal fry? Why should we care if 8 million year old plankton ...

Plankton may be tiny, but they play an important role in the ocean. As the foundation of marine ecosystems, they support ocean food webs and help regulate Earth's climate by storing carbon. While lab ...

Plankton are a collection of tiny organisms that live at and beneath the surface of lakes, rivers, ponds, and oceans across the planet. They’re named for the Greek word planktos, meaning to drift or ...

SpongeBob SquarePants antagonist Plankton is finally claiming the spotlight with his own Netflix movie, which will debut in 2025. Netflix dropped a first-look image at Plankton: The Movie on X/Twitter ...

April 2 (UPI) --Over the last six decades, the makeup of the plankton population found in Britain's coastal and offshore waters has dramatically shifted. According to a new study, the changes in the ...

In 2014 and 2015, two massive plankton blooms that appeared off the coast of Antarctica, baffling scientists observing them. Plankton blooms occur when populations of phytoplankton—microscopic, ...