Companies around the world are racing to patent the genetic building blocks of plankton – microscopic ocean life that ...

Learn how the emergence of new plankton species started life's swift recovery after the asteroid impact that killed most ...

This week at the Oceanarium, I was stopped short while explaining that the eggs from a crab hatch into larval stages and become plankton. The question that stopped me was, “What is plankton?” Now, my ...

Abigail McQuatters-Gollop receives funding from Natural Environment Research Council and the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs. If you go to the beach and dip a bucket in the sea, you ...

Recently discovered microfossils date back half a billion years. Resembling modern-day algae, they provide insight into early life in our oceans. A scientist from the University of Leicester has ...

Federal research and funding plays a crucial role in enabling scientists to monitor ocean conditions — including the domoic acid outbreak that is now killing hundreds of marine mammals up and down the ...