Do you have idea what a jar full of living copepods and waterfleas smell like? You will be surprised😁
#plankton #zooplankton #freshwater #citizenscience

The sock puppets of the plankton are back! This is the larva of a sand mason worm (Lanice conchilega) and it’s so adorable!! They make little tubes which they reach out of to grab food from their surroundings.

#marineplankton #zooplankton

Spionida (order) polychaete eggs and trochophores are really quite distinctive, with a sort of lattice-effect membrane going on. Excellent style choice!

#marineplankton #zooplankton #polychaete

How utterly adorable is this gastropod veliger larva?! I’ve never seen one in my samples with such large vela. Stunning! Vid in the comments.

#marineplankton #zooplankton #gastropod

Biological pumps: how zooplankton are transporting microplastics to the ocean depths - Water Magazine A new study has recorded and measured just how fast microplastics move through the gut passage of a key zooplankton species in real time.

New study has recorded and measured how fast microplastics move through the gut passage of a key zooplankton species to estimate how much plastic they might be transporting and sinking down through the ocean each day...

www.watermagazine.co.uk/2026/04/02/b...

@pml.ac.uk #microplastics #zooplankton

Long-term monitoring reveals biomass loss and concurrent dominance changes in coastal zooplankton community vist.ly/4wvq3 #Zooplankton #Biodiversity #ClimateChange

A multi-institutional team, led by URI and featuring #BigelowLab researchers, is helping show just how important tiny animals called copepods are for shuttling energy and nutrients across the ocean food web: https://www.bigelow.org/news/articles/2026-03-20.html #ocean #science #zooplankton

Rapid evolution of zooplankton linked to urban transportation: Evidence from microgeography and resurrection ecology Urban roadway runoff represents a widespread pollutant in the process of urbanization, and its eco-evolutionary influence on aquatic organisms remains poorly understood. This study focused on the dom...

Urban #runoff can drive rapid evolution in aquatic organisms. A study shows increased tolerance to tire-derived pollutants in #zooplankton across both spatial and temporal scales, revealing how urbanisation shapes adaptive responses and influences future ecosystem resilience.
doi.org/10.1002/lno....

Local environmental and spatial processes, not land use, shape the taxonomic and functional structure of pond zooplankton communities - Aquatic Sciences Local environmental and spatial processes, in combination with surrounding land use, are considered key interacting mechanisms shaping the structure of aquatic communities. Traditional approaches have...

Study from Spain shows that functional traits better capture environmental and spatial effects on #pond #zooplankton communities than species data. Local environmental conditions were key drivers, while land use had limited influence, highlighting complex community dynamics.
doi.org/10.1007/s000...

Ecotoxicological effects of traditional and emerging microplastics on marine zooplankton: A review Microplastics (MPs) are widespread and persistent pollutants in marine environments, raising global ecological concerns. Zooplankton are a critical gr…

#Ecotoxicological effects of traditional and emerging #microplastics on marine #zooplankton: A review

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Ocean's Heart: The Tiny Creatures Essential to Life The Ocean's Heart: The Tiny Creatures Essential to Life [Hoffmann, Jilanne, Le, Khoa] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Ocean's Heart: The Tiny Creatures Essential to Life

#Zooplankton scurry to survive by playing clever tricks, evading capture with brief bursts of speed. They're an underwater meteor shower. Sparklers and spinning pinwheels distract and deceive. @Jill_SF #MillbrookPress amzn.to/4dn1pgg #ad #StevosNovelIdeas #KidLit #booksky

"Estonian flies the flag" headline in the Shetland Times, 23 August 1991, with black and white image of fish factory captain; superimposed by colour image of factory ship with fishing boat alongside in Lerwick Harbour, Shetland; overcast day; rolling green hills; grey harbour water.

#Fieldwork encapsulates #time and #place - collecting #zooplankton while failed coup attempt on President #Gorbachev caused changing of flags on #Soviet fish factory ships in #Lerwick Harbour #Shetland - August 1991.

#naturalhistory #politics #SovietUnion #Fishing #Scotland #ecology #freshwater

Krill. Embryo and early larval stages of the Humboldt Current krill Euphausia mucronata (Crustacea: Euphausiacea). Ramiro Riquelme-Bugueño, Jaime Gómez-Gutiérrez, Jocelyn Silva-Aburto, Rubén Escribano, Wolfgang Schneider. Invertebrate Biology. BioOne Complete A to Z. Closup of a krill.

K is for Krill — #Krill are small crustaceans and the foundation of #marine food webs.
A paper in Invertebrate Biology documents their physical characteristics developmental stages to provide a complete understanding of the krill life cycle. bio-one.co/4t4qu5g

#BioOneCompleteAtoZ #zooplankton

👏 Highlighting Iole Di Capua’s DTO‑BioFlow 2nd #OpenCall project!

📊 Her team harmonised 40 years of #zooplankton data from Gulf of Naples — one of the longest Mediterranean records. Now #FAIR & open, it supports #ocean research, coastal conservation, & evidence-based policy.

🎥 tinyurl.com/97fbaues

My samples are still full of tintinnid ciliates! This one is poking out of its lorica to show us its lovely single-celled body.

#marinebiology #zooplankton
#microscopy #plankton #ciliates

Original post on mastodon.online

In der #Lagune von #Venedig breiten sich invasive #Arten wie die kannibalische #Rippenqualle und die #Blaukrabbe durch wärmere #Meere aus.

Beide bedrohen das #Ökosystem und verringern die Fänge deutlich. #Qual­len fressen #Zooplankton sowie Eier und Larven wichtiger Arten. #Blaukrabben finden […]

What can we learn from zooplankton? Meet the researchers using the tiny crustaceans to monitor endangered whales and climate change in the Gulf of Maine.

The destruction of copepods by toxic scrubber wash discharge from cruise ships eliminates this vital food source but is rarely part of the conversation.

How can we change that?
themainemonitor.org/what-can-we-... by @juliatilton.com
with @seascapescience.bsky.social
#rightwhales #zooplankton

Reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi), Maldives. Picture Copyright by Paul Montgomery

Reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi), Maldives. Picture Copyright by Paul Montgomery

One of the giants of the reef, a #reefmantaray (Mobula alfredi), moves effortlessly through the water with a deceptive speed that is only perceivable when you realise how fast they pass you by underwater. #reeflife #mantaray #zooplankton

This beautiful little ice fish (Channichthydae) is taking advantage of being in a bucket full of copepods to help himself to many snacks. This is called “net feeding” & can scew gut content analyses in net caught organisms. Ice fish are the only fish without hemoglobin #oceanography #zooplankton 🌊🐧🇦🇶

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🌊 Researchers are studying tiny grazers to better model #zooplankton and ocean food webs in a new Ecological Modelling paper with co-author @zoopgrouplady 🦐

📸 @niimichthyidae

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Das Plymouth Marine Laboratory zeigt Echtzeit-Aufnahmen von #Zooplankton, das #Mikroplastik verdaut. Mit absinkenden Kotpellets gelangt das #Plastik rasch in tiefere Wasserschichten der #Meere und dort schneller als gedacht in die #Nahrungskette. URL: t1p.de/e272c

🌊🦐🧪🌎 🦑 Join the Point Blue Marine Lab and @exploratorium.bsky.social on Friday, 1/23/26 to explore the world of #krill! They may be small, but these tiny #zooplankton are important prey, vital to the marine ecosystem, and help us understand #oceanhealth. shorturl.at/c4Dsm

WATCH NOW: Real-time imaging of microplastic gut passage in zooplankton A new study has, for the first time, recorded and measured just how fast microplastics move through the gut passage of a key zooplankton species in real time – and used those measurements to estimat

A new study has, for the first time, recorded & measured just how fast #microplastics move through the gut passage of a key #zooplankton species, revealing #copepods may be moving 100s of plastic particles per cubic metre of seawater down through the water column every day: pml.ac.uk/news/watch-n...

Complete view of copepod with one tail antenna and two short head antennas.

Two cilliates in a sheath, attached to the copepod

One tail antenna.

Short head antennas.

A #copepod I've never seen before. Any ideas? It also has two unknown #cilliate stowaways. #plankton #freshwater #microscopy #zooplankton #biofouling

Getting ready to depart Mexico - next science adventure is Antarctica in a few weeks. For now, here are a few extra special guys from the deep sea net tows in Gulf of California. #zooplankton #oceanography #christmasatsea 🌊❤️

𝘊𝘺𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘶𝘮 - a new monstrilloid copepod species has been found in the northern South China Sea.

Want to know how? Check it out on our open-access journal: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

#newspecies #zooplankton #copepods

A little and large Ctenophora larvae (probably sea gooseberries, Pleurobrachia pileus) from October.

#marinebiology #zooplankton
#microscopy #plankton #ctenophore

A slow motion Christmas sea angel 👼🪽taken by Jamie with some of our dive-collected specimens from the Gulf of California #zooplankton #oceanography 🌊

Deze soort #nauplius larve ben ik na deze foto nooit meer tegengekomen. Heeft iemand een idee welk geslacht het is?
I never came across this #larvae again after this photo. Does anyone know what the genus is?
#plankton #zooplankton #microscopy #copepods #freshwater