A new study has revealed that small but mighty zooplankton—including copepods, krill, and salps—are key players in the Southern Ocean's ability to absorb and store carbon.

Creating new scientific models of plankton is "critical" to understanding the scale of global climate change, a new paper argues. The article, led by Plymouth Marine Laboratory's Professor Kevin ...

Zooplankton like copepods aren’t just fish food—they’re carbon-hauling powerhouses. By diving deep into the ocean each winter, they’re secretly stashing 65 million tonnes of carbon far ...

By the middle of the last century, economic forces had shut down many of the Blackstone Valley’s mills. But it wasn’t until passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972 that the river started to ...

Small crustaceans called copepods drift along with ocean currents to find whatever nutrients will sustain them, and they, in turn, sustain many species of whales.

A rare 300-pound dusky shark was tagged by OCEARCH and tracked off St. Helena Island, offering insights into its migration and endangered status.

They snack on isopods, amphipods, copepods, and bristle worms, all of which they happily swallow whole. Finding Love in the Abyss Scientists think Dumbo octopuses live three to five years.

The feeding rate of mussels depends on their body weight. A live mussel weighs around 60.1g on average ranging between 33.9g to 93.2g. A large mussel can filter up to 25 liters of water per day ...

Tiny Creatures, Massive Impact: How Zooplankton Store 65 Million Tonnes of Carbon Annually June 27, 2025 — Zooplankton like copepods aren’t just fish food—they’re carbon-hauling powerhouses.

“The new species of copepod crustacean, Tetragoniceps bermudensis, is the first of its genus from Bermuda, as well as the first known cave-dwelling species of the genus anywhere in the world and only ...

Carbon storage in the Southern Ocean Copepods – small, shrimp-like crustaceans – are the main drivers of this deep-sea carbon delivery system. They’re responsible for about 80 percent of the total ...