FEEDING: Small larvae begin feeding on unicellular algae, planktonic animals, and small crustaceans. As they grow, their diet shifts nearly exclusively to copepods (small crustaceans). THREATS: ...

Watch how a blue whales lunges for its food. A jar of krill specimens with visible eye spots. Blue whales eat huge volumes of these small crustaceans.

But in a study published this week (January 8) in Science Advances, researchers showed that a species of coastal fish generates light using both luciferin and luciferase captured from its ...

The sponge's branching limbs are covered in tiny, barbed hooks, which act like Velcro to capture passing prey, mainly copepods and other small crustaceans ...