An Australian marine scientist says microplastics in the oceans pose a "significant risk" to filter-feeding marine animals like manta rays and whale sharks. A research paper, "Microplastics: No small ...

Objective: Students will engineer a water filter based on observations of manta ray feeding filters, then test its effectiveness. Topics: Structure and function, adaptation, engineering and design ...

(Reuters) - The blue whale and other baleen whales, the gentle giants of the sea, sift huge quantities of tiny prey from ocean water using a filter-feeding system in their mouths. But they were not ...

A combined team of paleontologists and geoscientists from China University of Geosciences and Hubei Geological Bureau, both in China, working with a colleague from the University of Bristol, has found ...

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Giant Larvaceans are small filter feeders in the ocean that trap tiny bits of food in order to survive, but a new study shows that food particles aren't all they're trapping. Plastic waste called ...

Modern flamingoes employ filter feeding and their feces are, as a result, rich in remains of microscopically-small aquatic prey. Very similar contents are described from more than 150 million year old ...