Many people enjoy spending their summers at the beach, listening to the waves, and exploring colorful tidepools. But too ...

A 'rarely seen' large jellyfish that looks like a huge blob washed up along the Texas coast on Monday, March 24.

Though phytoplankton give the Hudson River a potentially unappealing greenish color, their presence indicates a healthy ...

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 ...

They’re resilient to low-oxygen environments and could outnumber plankton in some regions as climate change continues.

Beachcombers who walk the Texas coast this March may spot an unusual jellyfish among the usual marine life. The Mushroom Cap ...

Academy Awards, visual effects supervisor Bill Westenhofer, accepting the award for Rhythm & Hues' work on Ang Lee's "Life of Pi," approached the microphone. "Sadly, Rhythm & Hues is suffering serious ...

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 ...