Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 64, No. S1, SPECIAL ISSUE: Long-term Perspectives in Aquatic Research (January 2019), pp. S240-S256 (17 pages) Pteropods are abundant zooplankton in the Western ...

Pteropods: Seawaters are already corrosive enough in some areas to erode the shells of these small sea “butterflies.” Pteropods are tiny snails that are found throughout the oceans and are an ...

The shells of marine snails – known as pteropods – living in the seas around Antarctica are being dissolved by ocean acidification according to a new study published this week in the journal ...

Scientists have already documented significant effects on pteropods—tiny swimming snails that are an important food for fish, whales, and birds in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. Experiments ...

Meanwhile in the north and south polar regions, marine plankton will be lost; some are already growing thinner and weaker shells. For example, pteropods are an important staple in the diet of salmon, ...

A naturalist and photographer, Schwartz was obsessed with seeing and photographing the transparent planktonic pteropods, Limacina helicina or sea butterfly, and its predator the sea angel. Cast in ...

Dark jellyfish twice came to my eyes, and the silvery eels again. The pteropods looked dull gold and I saw my first shrimps with minute but very distinct portholes of lights. A great cloud ...

Pteropods, ocean-dwelling snails roughly the size of a thumbnail, have been dubbed by some the "… The world's ocean are absorbing carbon dioxide at an unprecedented rate and the resulting ...