Many phytoplankton are microscopic, and they range from single-celled algae to bacteria to protists, which aren’t plants or animals. One thing they all have in common: They require sunlight.

The first analyses of plankton collected by Tara ... including bacteria, archaea, protists, metazoans, viruses, and fish larvae. In total, the team collected samples from 153 different locations, from ...

But what would happen if all marine life—from the tiniest plankton to the largest whales—disappeared? A recent study delves into this extreme scenario to uncover the crucial role that ocean ...

Plankton collected in the Pacific Ocean with a 0.1 mm mesh net. This is a mixture of multicellular organisms -- small zooplanktonic animals, larvae and single cell protists (diatoms ...

I’m studying how changes in temperature affect how fast plankton grow, and how much they eat. Is there a change in the community structure of those protists that pushes those organisms to eat ...