Plankton are an important food source for many large and small ocean creatures. They also play a vital role in absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen in the ocean. The two most prominent ...

Phylogenomics data place the enigmatic plankton in the middle of the algal family tree, despite their apparent lack of plastids—an organelle characteristic of all other algae. Christie is ... and ...

How pond scum could become the hero of our eating habits on Earth and feed astronauts on missions to Mars. “People have been eating blue-green algae for ... to blend two liquids that don ...

The Hoffman's two-toed sloth is one of the world's slowest mammals—so sedentary that algae ... eat leaves, shoots, and fruit from the trees and get almost all of their water from juicy plants.