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Zooplankton are small—but do you know just how small? This drop of water smaller than the eye of a needle is magnified 20x and contains multitudes.

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Zooplankton in the Eye of a Needle

February 2014

Radiolarian Shells

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Glassy Radiolarian Beauty

February 2014

Beating Cilia of Comb Jelly Combs

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Sea Gooseberry Larva

February 2014

This copepod (Gaussia princeps) was collected deeper than 1000 meters in the Sargasso Sea by Census of Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ) researchers in April 2006.

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Five Questions with Russ Hopcroft, Zooplankton Whiz

May 2014

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