Every few days, the crew of the Challenger would dredge the ocean floor for sediment and specimens. Courtesy of The Trustees of the Natural History Museum. The H.M.S. Challenger spent just over three ...

The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium will host a Marine Biology and Beach Field Lab on Dec. 19 from 7 to 9 ...

Plankton are a collection of tiny organisms that live at and beneath the surface of lakes, rivers, ponds, and oceans across the planet. They’re named for the Greek word planktos, meaning to drift or ...

Microscopic plant-like organisms called phytoplankton support the diversity of life in the ocean. Scientists now report that one species, Emiliania huxleyi, and a virus closely associated with it, ...

Results from a 2016 research cruise show ocean acidification has interfered with shell development of zooplankton that are a critical part of the marine food web. Shelled pteropods, microscopic ...

As weather warms up off the coast of France, blooms of plankton have once again begun to form, creating a beautiful, multicolored swirl visible from space. NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites acquired ...