For decades, scientists assumed these plankton-feeding fishes—or planktivores—shared specialized traits: forked tails and streamlined body forms for speed, large eyes for spotting small prey, and ...

Fossil evidence indicates they had sharp, beaklike jaws to snare prey such as plankton, crustaceans, and other ammonites. They were also preyed on by larger reptiles and fish. As ammonites evolved ...

Within hours the plankton run out, the feast winds down, and the mantas plow the bay's sandy bottom with their cephalic fins to throw hidden prey back into the water column. Generations ago those ...

For decades, scientists assumed these plankton-feeding fishes – or planktivores – shared specialised traits: forked tails and streamlined body forms for speed, large eyes for spotting small prey, and ...

Plankton is a basis of marine life, contributing nearly 50% to global primary production and playing a significant role in climate regulation due to carbon sequestration and formation of clouds. Yet, ...

“We linked the dietary shifts to changes in prey availability, and we connected changes in prey to system-wide reductions in the abundance of seagrass and drifting macroalgae. These reductions ...

Ever since Charles Darwin, scientists have assumed species facing the same problem often evolve similar traits. But that’s not always the case.

For another, they all share the same challenge of having to spot and suck out small prey from the water column. So we asked: do plankton-feeding fishes have a distinct body shape? And do patterns ...