A fluorescence microscopy image of phytoplankton including chain-forming diatoms and many large dinoflagellates. The different colors indicate different components of the cells including the cell's ...

Scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography have uncovered new insights into the bioluminescence of a unique species of marine plankton that feeds on other plankton, including the ...

A singular scene from last year’s red tide event in the Gulf of Mexico sticks in the memory of phytoplankton ecologist Vincent Lovko. “I got to go up in a helicopter with a news crew,” Lovko says.

Microscope image of one of the samples examined for this study (approximately 53 million years old). The photo shows the fossil remains of various species of dinoflagellates, each measuring ...

When 19th-century British biologist Thomas Henry Huxley first put seafloor mud under a microscope, he found tiny round and oval particles in abundance. Not knowing what they were, he dubbed them ...

Dinoflagellates is not a word you hear every day of the week. In fact, many people probably get through their entire lives without ever coming in contact with the word. Yet, the dinoflagellates are a ...

Scott Whittaker magnifies unseen worlds. Small details become a big deal when they are seen through a scanning electron microscope. Mr. Whittaker, the scanning electron microscopy lab manager at the ...

This may look like Salvador Dali's Mae West Lips Sofa, but it is a colourised scanning electron microscope image of a diatom - a tiny single-celled marine creature invisible to the naked eye. Diatoms ...

Sally, one of my lab mates, takes amazing videos of protists under the microscope (she posts these on her Instagram, pondlife_pondlife – go check it out). She showed me this video of a Dinoflagellate, ...