If the pinkish-red color appears somewhat intimidating, it's with good reason. Steichen warns this type of phytoplankton does ...

Undersea mountains are key locations for predators—with 41 times more sharks than the open ocean, new research shows.

The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as ...

Under-sea mountains are key locations for predators – with 41 times more sharks than the open ocean, new research shows .The study – led by the ...

“The hypothesis is that the whales were actually adding nutrients to the ecosystem that these phytoplankton were able to use, so they would bloom more and then the krill could eat them,” Bundy sai ...

Researchers found that whale feces contain iron and non-toxic copper, essential nutrients for ocean ecosystems. The study ...

A blue whale photographed in September 2010.NOAA The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny ...

Unlike trees, phytoplankton only live for about 20 days. And when they die, bacteria in the ocean eat them. “So as a result, essentially all the carbon that the phytoplankton have taken in gets ...

The waters of the River Ebro have long shaped not only the landscapes but also the gastronomy of Catalonia’s Terres de l’Ebre ...

Seagrasses and phytoplankton near the ocean’s surface ... It’s a key building block in the foods we eat, and in Earth’s most abundant greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane ...