Antarctic krill, tiny shrimp-like creatures, are an important species in the Southern Ocean ecosystem and global carbon cycle, in part because of their poop. Their dense and rich fecal pellets sink ...

The Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica is the world’s largest feeding ground for baleen whales — species like humpbacks that filter tiny organisms from seawater for food. In the 20th century, ...

Tiny krill are vital to ocean life. New research shows how these shrimp-like creatures adapt their feeding. By changing how ...

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Apart from mammals and birds, most animals develop as eggs exposed to the vagaries of the outside world. This development is energetically "costly." Going from a tiny egg to a fully functioning ...

Researchers have more insight into salps -- a strange sea creature found in oceans around the world -- and what their presence means for the health of a marine ecosystem. Florida State University ...

Researchers have presented important first steps in building underwater navigation robots. Picture a network of interconnected, autonomous robots working together in a coordinated dance to navigate ...

"Both krill oil and fish oil are rich sources of omega-3 fatty acids, specifically EPA and DHA, which are known to support heart, brain, and metabolic health," confirms Michelle Routhenstein, ...

Be they anchovies, sardines, or krill, schools of sea critters all take the same unusual shape, new research shows. That shape, resembling a "multifaceted lozenge," results from a competing drive by ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Picture a network of interconnected, autonomous robots working together in a coordinated dance to navigate the pitch-black surroundings of the ocean while ...

Florida State University researchers have more insight into a strange sea creature found in oceans around the world and what their presence means for the health of a marine ecosystem. Scientists have ...