A juvenile North Atlantic right whale that washed up on Martha’s Vineyard in January with fishing gear caught in its tail ...

Siphonophores are unusual animals made up of individual organisms called "zooids," which each have a distinct function — ...

ON HUDSON BAY -- Searching for polar bears where the Churchill River dumps into Canada's massive Hudson Bay, biologist Geoff ...

If you're struggling to keep mosquito larvae under control, it may be time to hire nature's little hitmen: copepods. Copepods ...

We are describing and documenting patterns of copepod species to determine how their diversity evolves. Copepods are one of the most abundant forms of life on Earth. They are dominant in the community ...

There are now about 600 polar bears in the Western Hudson Bay, which is about half the number of 40 years ago, expert says ...

Calanoid Copepods of the Arabian Sea Region' marks the first time peer-reviewed taxonomic information on zooplankton for the northwestern Indian Ocean has been collected in one place and in ...

But one tiny organism, notorious for its ability to return to life after a trip to space, being frozen or boiled, asphyxiated ...

New DNA technology promises to improve efforts to monitor marine life in the Southern Ocean, and detect the presence of ...

If you examine a sample of seawater under a microscope in spring, you will see tiny crustaceans known as copepods which spend their whole lives as plankton and are a key source of food for fish.

Researchers originally planned to compare water quality in white and minority communities, but found that the relevant data ...