The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

Chapter 19: Sea butterfly page 285: the oceans have absorbed...much of the additional heat . See Missing heat found in oceans, global...

Twenty-eighth in a series of notes and comments on The Book of Barely Imagined Beings Chapter 19: Sea butterfly page 285: implica...

Planktonic forams floating in the upper levels of the oceans sequester about one quarter of all carbonate produced in the oceans each ye...

A good short movie Hat tip Grrlscientist . Evidence that plankton numbers have declined steeply in recent decades is debated. But t...

Ed Yong explains : One group of copepods, the pontellids, are found throughout the topmost waters. They tend to be more brightly coloure...

The more we learn, the more questions we have. Some of the questions are in the realm of basic biology. What evolutionary processes maint...