Warmer waters generally have lower plankton biomass and abundance, and consist of species with smaller body sizes. Jellyfish, my favorite type of zooplankton, are among the biggest plankton.

Dr. Fields held a tiny jellyfish brought up in the plankton nets in a seawater sample brown with algae.Credit...Billy Hickey for The New York Times Suddenly, there were fewer of the larger ...

Despite their name, jellyfish aren’t ... The fringe of hairlike cilia sweeps food—mostly plankton—toward their mouths. The jellies change color depending on what they eat.

BARBER: "Plankton" comes from the Greek word for drifter and refers to anything that can't swim against the current, which makes jellyfish plankton. And the plankton we're talking about today ...

Beachcombers who walk the Texas coast this March may spot an unusual jellyfish among the usual marine life. The Mushroom Cap Jellyfish (Rhopilema verrilli), a rarely seen visitor, has been washing ...

They can also be 20cm long, like this jellyfish. Image caption, Jellyfish are also a type of plankton. All types of plankton have one thing in common, they are unable to propel, or move themselves ...

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 ...

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With fewer fish around, jellyfish have less competition for the plankton they feed on. They also thrive in warmer waters and seas polluted by fertilisers from farming. In the oceans of the future, ...

The Marine Conservation Society has been asking the public to report sightings of jellyfish for 20 years. Dr Abigail McQuatters-Gollop, a plankton expert at the University of Plymouth, agrees that ...

an animal closely related to jellyfish, according to a Feb. 28 study published in the journal Plankton and Benthos Research. Thousands of new species are found each year. Here are three of our ...