The animals we best know as fish food help to store millions of tons of carbon in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

Krill, small marine crustaceans that live in large schools, are some of the most common animals on Earth and a crucial food source for many marine species such as whales, seals and fish.

As the founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and the Captain Paul Watson Foundation, Watson has long stood at the ...

Krill is a catchall term for roughly 86 species that are found throughout the world’s open oceans. They are only about the size of a human thumb, but play an important role in the global food web.

Kim Bernard, at left, is an expert on Antarctic krill, a species crucial to the health of the continent’s food chain. For a research expedition on the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R.V. Falkor ...

UK scientists plan to monitor krill from space as species threatened by warming - The researchers hope to analyse where ...

Zooplankton like copepods aren’t just fish food—they’re carbon-hauling powerhouses. By diving deep into the ocean each winter ...

Whales feed for roughly 100 days out of each year; depending on the species, an adult whale may consume 1 to 6 tons of krill in a day.

Antarctic krill is rich in omega-3 fatty acids and serves as the only food source for larger whale species like blues or fins, filtering easily through their bristly mouths and forming an integral ...

Title image: An adult blue whale. (Credit: NOAA) Antarctic krill fishing could threaten the recovery of whale species that were nearly wiped out by industrial whaling, according to a study led by CU ...

A number of penguin species found in western Antarctica are declining as a result of a fall in the availability of krill, a study has suggested. Researchers, examining 30 years of data, said ...

British scientists are hoping to monitor Antarctic krill from space as the species faces growing threats from climate change and overfishing.. WWF, the University of Strathclyde and the British ...