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, ...

Oil is taken up by Acartia bifilosa and Eurytemora hirundoides in the gut system when exposed to Russian crude oil for 24 hours. 14C-l-naphthalene is also absorbed by E. hirundoides from emulsions in ...

Learn how zooplankton act as carriers of microplastics to the deep ocean, transporting hundreds of particles per cubic meter ...

To larger aquatic creatures, copepods are either food or something your food eats. Of the thousands of species of the tiny zooplankton -- ranging from docile algae eaters, to vicious carnivores known ...