Plankton are the backbone of the ocean — and may struggle with what’s coming. A pair of papers in the journal Nature shows how plankton are struggling to survive in warming seas.

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 ...

Instead, plankton-feeding is a highly accessible and flexible feeding strategy on coral reefs—available to fishes of many shapes, sizes, evolutionary histories, and even different feeding groups.

Inspired by the microscopic beauty of plankton, artist Jan van IJken embarked on a year-long project to collect, film and showcase a diverse, bizarre array of aquatic organisms invisible to the ...