In the sea, fish feed on species lower in the food chain. Can these same species form the basis of a new feed industry supplying the fish farming sector? "This is very possible," says Ingrid Ellingsen ...

We all know the amazing job that bees and birds, as pollinators, do for the planet. But have you heard about the humble copepod? Copepods can be as small as the tip of a needle and have been compared ...

Scientific illustration is about recording accurate forms without distorting the subject. You must not project imagination ...

In this video, I built an 8-gallon outdoor aquarium-pond teeming with life. It features native plants, Gammarus, copepods, ...

Tiny crustaceans called copepods rule the world, at least when it comes to oceans and estuaries. The most numerous multi-cellular organisms in the seas, copepods are an important link between ...

The world's oceans are becoming increasingly stressful places for marine life, and experts are working to understand what this means for the future. From rising temperatures; to acidification as more ...

Dating on land may be unpleasant, but for microscopic sea animals, searching for a mate in the sea is like looking for a needle in a haystack, where the haystack is the size of Mount Everest. Consider ...

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Learn how researchers used underwater cameras and hydrophones to observe life moving naturally through one of the least studied ecosystems beneath Arctic ice. At first glance, the footage looks almost ...

Even the topmost layer of the ocean, just millimetres below the air above, is full of life. This zone, where two worlds meet, is home to small creatures like animal larvae, algae, bacteria, and other ...