Swim along the edge of a coral reef and you'll often see schools of sleek, torpedo-shaped fishes gliding through the currents, feeding on tiny plankton from the water column. For decades ...

For decades, marine biologists believed plankton-eating reef fish all evolved toward the same ideal body shape: But a groundbreaking 2025 study analyzing 299 species across 12 fish families ...

Swim along the edge of a coral reef and you’ll often see schools of sleek, torpedo-shaped fishes gliding through the currents, feeding on tiny plankton from the water column. For decades, scientists ...

Microscopic marine plankton are not helplessly adrift in the ... the cells were able to actively and rapidly change their shape: from asymmetric pear-shaped cells swimming upwards, the cells ...

The genome of single-celled plankton, known as dinoflagellates ... which the team inferred comprises rod-shaped chromosomes that fold into structural domains at the boundaries where gene blocks ...

Microscopic marine plankton are not helplessly adrift in the ... the cells were able to actively and rapidly change their shape: from asymmetric pear-shaped cells swimming upwards, the cells ...

Spindle-shaped inclusions in three-billion-year-old rocks are microfossils of plankton that probably inhabited the oceans around the globe during that time, according to scientists. Spindle-shaped ...

An up-close portrait of a corkscrew-shaped plankton, a peek into a painted turtle's eye and a magnified view of a marine worm are among this year's winners of a photography contest that honors all ...