Category: Plankton

What’s green and gold and red all over?

There’s a sizable red tide event unfolding in Australia right now, where thick slicks of red planktonic algae are washing up...

Science is about discovery, observation and understanding, but it doesn’t always proceed smoothly and inexorably towards success. Real science,...

Yesterday the DSN crew first saw the video above. What is this large floating sheet of goo? Is it...

h/t Bruce Carlson and TED

Despite the “hunting the giant squid” theme, there is some really cool footage here. some of it I haven’t...

Check this out: That right there is one gorgeous copepod, one of the bigger and more important groups of...

Make sure you go read Hannah’s post on krill sex in the deep sea. Find out why should care...

Today marks the long-awaited release of the Daphnia pulex genome, published today in Science. Why is this such a...

I am spending the holiday break sorting zooplankton in the lab, so this assortment of Christmas-themed plankton seems especially...

A new study released today shows the first evidence of Deepwater Horizon oil entering planktonic food webs in the...