Scientists say subtle differences in the colour of seawater will enable them to count tiny - but critically important - ...

Scientists track Antarctic krill via satellite to monitor ocean health amid climate change and fishing threats.

There are so many of them that the krill living in just Antarctica rival animals like humans and cows for the single ... playing a critical role in drawing down carbon from the ocean surface. ‘With ...

Sure, they look scary, but those 50 rows of teeth are for filtering krill. The Japanese ... This thrilling deep-sea fish was voted the world's ugliest animal by the Ugly Animal Preservation ...

This means it is more important than ever to understand these animals and how ... are eaten by everything from sea birds to squid." "As cold water specialists, krill are vulnerable to the effects ...

It will use changes in the degree of red coloration detected by satellites to track its quarry: a tiny shrimp smaller than ...

The tiny creatures are only a few centimetres long but play a critical role in Antarctic marine ecosystems, sustaining penguins, seals and the world’s largest animals ... But rising sea temperatures ...

"There's estimated to be about 300 million [metric] tons of Antarctic krill in the Southern Ocean, which is the greatest biomass of a single wild animal species globally," Dr. Smith said.

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 59, No. 1 (2014), pp. 17-36 (20 pages) Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) were sampled in contrasting habitats: a seasonally ice-covered deep ocean (Lazarev Sea), ice ...

A team of scientists have been using the colour of seawater to help count tiny Antarctic sea creatures from miles above. They ...

With sea ice declining and industrial fishing growing, we urgently need to better manage the fishery and protect krill habitats within a network of marine protected areas. ‘Krill from Space ...

Krill are food for some of the largest animals on the planet - including giant ... krill eat microscopic plants that live in sea ice, and those plants absorb planet-warming carbon as they grow.