Each year, shore waves along the Texas coastline are illuminated with flashes of ethereal blue light. The dazzling display is ...

Blue whales eat by filtering seawater through their comb-like baleen, pushing out water while keeping the plankton in their mouth. Unlike most sharks, basking sharks and whale sharks don't have ...

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

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 ...

A jar of krill specimens with visible eye spots. Blue whales eat huge volumes of these small crustaceans. Blue whales eat krill - tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans that live throughout Earth's oceans. The ...