Plankton are the backbone of the ocean — and may struggle with what’s coming. A pair of papers in the journal Nature shows how plankton are struggling to survive in warming seas.

Plankton may be tiny, but they play an important role in the ocean. As the foundation of marine ecosystems, they support ocean food webs and help regulate Earth's climate by storing carbon. While ...

Plankton is getting his very own movie as the SpongeBob SquarePants crew is coming to Netflix later this Spring with Plankton: The Movie, and fans can check out the first look at what to expect.As ...

Netflix has released the trailer for Plankton: The Movie, where the villain character’s latest evil plan gets thwarted and he has to team up with his frenemy. Keep reading to learn more… ...

As plankton is a collection of different types of organisms it also varies both in appearance and size. They can be microscopic and as small as 2 micrometres. That means that it’s impossible to ...

Scientists have compared data from the last ice age, around 21,000 years ago, and modern records to see what happened to plankton when the world has previously warmed.

Unraveling plankton adaptation in global oceans through the untargeted analysis of lipidomes. Science Advances , 2025; 11 (21) DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ads4605 Cite This Page : ...

Road salt may hurt vital link in freshwater food chain, study says. The team tracked individual plankton them from birth to death and exposed them to various concentrations of sodium chloride ...

The egotistical, aggressive, evil and power-hungry planktonic copepod –Plankton– from SpongeBob fame is getting his own Netflix movie as unveiled as part of the streamer’s Next on Netflix ...

Sheldon Plankton is the tiny, one-eyed villain from SpongeBob SquarePants with evil plans for world domination, most of which rely on stealing the Krabby Patty secret formula from Mr Krabs.

Many plankton journey from the cold, dark depths of our oceans to the surface, only to eventually drift down again into the darkness in a perpetual rhythm. Yet, how single-celled phytoplankton ...

A QUT researcher has observed a rare ocean phenomenon off the coast of Timor-Leste revealing a surprising ally in the fight for coral reef survival: giant, gelatinous plankton known as pyrosomes.