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 ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American ON THE ICEBREAKER HEALY IN THE BERING SEA (at ...

These teeny shrimp-like critters at the bottom of the ocean food web seem totally unimportant. But throw in an oil spill and some well-intentioned human intervention and they can have a huge impact, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a first-of-its-kind experiment tracing evolution across 25 generations, scientists have discovered that marine copepods – the tiny crustaceans at the heart of the ocean food web – rely on a largely ...

“These microbes travel with their copepod hosts”, explains lead author Dr. Ximena Velasquez. “Because copepods dispersal is more limited by ocean currents than free-living microbes, their associated ...

Shrimp-like critters the size of fleas could be the champion jumpers of the animal kingdom, scientists now reveal. After analyzing high-speed video of three species of crustaceans known as copepods, ...