A strange image of SpongeBob SquarePants’ Plankton has become a viral meme on TikTok. This has greatly intrigued fans who are now curious about this “cursed” meme and what it entails. Fans also wish ...

A strange image of SpongeBob SquarePants’ Plankton has become a viral meme on TikTok. This has greatly intrigued fans who are now curious about this “cursed” meme and what it entails. Fans also wish ...

This week at the Oceanarium, I was stopped short while explaining that the eggs from a crab hatch into larval stages and become plankton. The question that stopped me was, “What is plankton?” Now, my ...

They drift aimlessly at sea, soaking up sunlight from the sky and nutrients from the deep. Often invisible to the naked eye, these tiny invertebrates form the hidden backbone of ocean ecosystems.

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Over the years, athletes have modeled their psychological approaches to athletic competition after everything from tigers to assassins to bunny rabbits. This season, Auburn football players are ...

One might have been beneath the ferry that you took to France. Another could have been beneath the boat that carried the banana you ate for lunch from the Caribbean. Right now, too, somewhere in the ...

It’s early in World War II, and America’s fate is tied to the sea. In the Atlantic, Nazi U-boats pick off convoy ships, threatening the lifeline to Europe. In the Pacific, Japanese subs prowl the ...

Phytoplankton are microscopic plants floating around in marine and aquatic ecosystems that produce 50-80% of the world’s oxygen. Besides providing food for countless other organisms, they are so ...

Behind closed doors at the Shedd Aquarium, green, orange and red water bubbles and gurgles in carefully organized jars and vats up to 5 feet high. In this water, microscopic organisms live, thrive and ...

When 19th-century British biologist Thomas Henry Huxley first put seafloor mud under a microscope, he found tiny round and oval particles in abundance. Not knowing what they were, he dubbed them ...