These tiny creatures may be no bigger than your little finger, but scientists plan to start counting them from space. Knowing how krill are faring in the oceans is important, because although they ...

If you’re like most people, you probably haven’t given krill much thought. You’ve heard of them, of course. They’re the small, shrimp-like animals that live in great swarms in most of the world’s ...

Stephen Nicol is here to change your mind about krill: They’re not microscopic and they’re far from boring. The biologist is so sick of people misunderstanding his study subjects that he’s even gotten ...

Millions of krill, a tiny shrimp-like animal that is a cornerstone of the marine food chain, perished last month along a 250-mile stretch of beaches from Oregon to northern Humboldt County. Scientists ...

EUREKA — Scientists are trying to determine what caused millions of shrimp-like critters known as krill to die and wash ashore along 250 miles of coast from ...

No one fishes for krill off the West Coast, and federal fisheries managers want to keep it that way so the tiny shrimp-like creatures remain as plentiful as possible as food for whales, salmon and ...

EUREKA — Scientists are trying to determine what caused millions of shrimp-like critters known as krill to die and wash ashore along 250 miles of coast from ...