A new species of groundwater copepod has been discovered in the rocky savannas of Brazil - an ecosystem suffering from heavy anthropogenic impact. Upon description, the tiny crustacean turned out to ...

A common and widespread species of freshwater plankton, called a copepod, forms new species at an uncommonly high rate, scientists have discovered. Indeed, a new study has revealed that what was once ...

Bermuda's Walsingham cave system harbors a wide diversity of cave-dwelling animals not found anywhere else in the world. Now, one more joins their ranks as researchers at the University of Cambridge, ...

Marine ecosystems are complex and dynamic, with zooplankton communities playing critical roles in their structure and function. Among zooplankton, copepods are particularly significant, comprising ...

Taxonomists have already named at least eight new animal species from the deep sea in the first half of 2026, spanning ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American ON THE ICEBREAKER HEALY IN THE BERING SEA (at ...

Copepods are a very successful group of small crustaceans that accounts for the major part of zooplankton biomass in the oceans. They play key roles in the transfer of primary production to upper ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 64, No. 3 (May 2019), pp. 833-847 (16 pages) In costal ecosystems, copepods coexist with toxin-producing phytoplankton. The presence of copepods can amplify the ...

A new species and genus of a tiny freshwater copepod has been found in the Brazilian rocky savannas, an ecosystem under heavy anthropogenic pressure. Prior to the discovery, only one genus of its ...

Bermuda’s Walsingham cave system harbors a wide diversity of cave-dwelling animals not found anywhere else in the world; now, one more joins their ranks as researchers of the University of Cambridge, ...