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 ...

In a remarkable scientific breakthrough, Russian researchers have successfully revived bdelloid rotifers, microscopic animals ...

Cheese fungus, head lice, human sperm, a bee eye, a microplastic bobble: scientific photographer Steve Gschmeissner has imaged them all under the probing lens of a scanning electron microscope (SEM).

Utah’s Great Salt Lake has just yielded a new resident, a microscopic animal that no one had ever documented there before.

Nature has produced some incredibly hardy animals, from the bowhead whale which can live at least two centuries to the crocodile that's lived longer than most people ever will. But while there are ...

Microscopic water bears can enter a near-invincible 'tun' state when stressed, enabling them to survive in the harshest conditions — including the vacuum of space. Now we know how. When you purchase ...

Plastic, an incredibly durable material, can last 500 years as it continues to break down into smaller and smaller pieces. Recent reporting has indicated that microplastics, tiny bits of plastic, have ...

The Homo sapiens view of our world is all a matter of perspective, and we need to remember that we’re among the larger creatures on Earth. At around 1.7 meters in length, we’re much closer in size to ...