The revived organisms resumed their biological activities as if they hadn't been without oxygen and light for thousands of ...

Researchers have successfully revived algae that remained dormant underneath sediment at the bottom of the Baltic Sea for ...

Mesoscale ocean eddies transport nutrients and energy-rich lipids, helping sustain marine ecosystems far from coasts.

Plankton is the name given to a collection of tiny sea life that lives in the ocean. These minute organisms may be small, but they have a big role to play in maintaining the health of our oceans.

Phytoplankton (minute plant-like organisms) produce half of the oxygen on earth by photosynthesis, like plants and trees on land do. Zooplankton (very tiny animals) form the basis of the food ...

A new study found that microbes in the Sargasso Sea divide nutrients throughout their communities over time, supporting ...

Carbon is then transferred to different layers of the ocean as primary producers are eaten by other organisms, which themselves reproduce, generate waste and die. Some plankton combine calcium and ...

Many organisms, from bacteria to plankton to mammals, can go into "sleep mode," or dormancy, in order to survive periods of unfavorable environmental conditions -- switching to a state of reduced ...