These teeny shrimp-like critters at the bottom of the ocean food web seem totally unimportant. But throw in an oil spill and some well-intentioned human intervention and they can have a huge impact, ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison provides the first empirical evidence connecting the chromosomal location of genes to natural selection, indicating the arrangement of ...

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 ...

Copepods are the world's best animal jumpers, suggests a new study that determined these tiny crustaceans jump with greater muscle power than kangaroos, frogs and all other impressive animal leapers.

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 ...

Laboratory radioisotope experiments were used to investigate the effects of phytoplankton seasonal succession on the selectivity and clearance rates of a suspension-feeding copepod in two Indiana ...

This combined photo, released by the Honam National Institute of Biological Resources on Oct. 23, 2025, shows two new copepod species, not found anywhere else in the world, that the institute's ...

The proximal portions of remipedian and cephalocarid trunk limbs were observed in detail. Some phylogenetically important structures have been formerly overlooked or ignored. The lobelike outer part ...

THOUGH NOT CHARISMATIC, Calanus glacialis is one of the most important creatures in the Arctic. About 4mm long and almost transparent, with a single eye and fine red antennae running the length of its ...

We are describing and documenting patterns of copepod species to determine how their diversity evolves. Copepods are one of the most abundant forms of life on Earth. They are dominant in the community ...