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 ...

Scientists have discovered Antarctic krill living and feeding down to depths of 3000 meters in the waters around the Antarctic Peninsula. Until now this shrimp-like crustacean was thought to live only ...

THOUSANDS of live krill will be flown from Antarctica to Australia as part of a bold plan by the Australian Antarctic Division. Scientists are trialling an aerial transport method using a Royal ...

Scientists have discovered Antarctic krill living and feeding at crushing depths of 3,000 metres in waters around the Antarctic Peninsula, a study says. Until now the shrimp-like crustaceans were ...

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 ...

A world-leading new research facility will be built in a suburb of Hobart, with the federal government saying its work will be “priceless”. To be co-located at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Krill live in all the world's oceans, but mostly in the Antarctic. There may be up to 500 million tonnes of krill out there The overwhelming majority of krill companies are to stop fishing in vast ...