CANADA: A world of diversity has been discovered in plankton, the tiny plants, viruses and embryonic fish that are a favourite food of whales and supply much of the planet’s oxygen, researchers say.
Plankton are important because they serve as the base of the marine food chain and provide half the oxygen generated on Earth by photosynthesis.
It turns out that these organisms are far more complex than scientists ever imagined, according to studies in the journal Science describing the findings of a multi-year journey known as the Tara Oceans project.
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