These teeny shrimp-like critters at the bottom of the ocean food web seem totally unimportant. But throw in an oil spill and some well-intentioned human intervention and they can have a huge impact, ...

With the lovely blanket of snow that we have on the ground, it is fun to see the squirrels and chipmunks making little ...

Copepods represent a pivotal component in aquaculture and larviculture, serving as an essential live feed that bridges the nutritional gap in early fish larval development. Their rich biochemical ...

We are describing and documenting patterns of copepod species to determine how their diversity evolves. Copepods are one of the most abundant forms of life on Earth. They are dominant in the community ...

Zooplankton no bigger than grains of rice play a much larger role in the transport and storage of CO2 in the ocean than previously thought, scientists report. Zooplankton no bigger than grains of rice ...

Copepods are the world's most common animals. In the summer there can be more than a hundred per liter of seawater. The article shows how their unique smell causes many of the ocean's smallest ...

The world's oceans are becoming increasingly stressful places for marine life, and experts are working to understand what this means for the future. From rising temperatures; to acidification as more ...

Crustaceana, Vol. 78, No. 7 (Jul., 2005), pp. 819-837 (19 pages) Based on specimens collected from the Japan Sea, all copepodid stages of the mesopelagic copepod, Gaetanus variabilis are described and ...

A lake in western Quebec, where the fish were once plentiful, is being thinned out by a parasite. Residents on Lac Simon, about 100 kilometres northeast of Ottawa, are dealing with an outbreak of ...

Shrimp-like critters the size of fleas could be the champion jumpers of the animal kingdom, scientists now reveal. After analyzing high-speed video of three species of crustaceans known as copepods, ...