Researchers are piecing together the unusual chemical reactions that enable dinoflagellates to create spectacular light ...

Some dinoflagellate plankton species are bioluminescent, with a remarkable ability to produce light to make themselves and the water they swim in glow. Now, researchers have found that for one ...

Scientists have used new genetic sequencing data to understand how an ancient organism that lived alongside the dinosaurs has evolved over millions of years. The effort has uncovered for the first ...

Dinoflagellates is not a word you hear every day of the week. In fact, many people probably get through their entire lives without ever coming in contact with the word. Yet, the dinoflagellates are a ...

Star trails and dinoflagellate trails. Photo by Alex Cherney, from the video When you go outside at night, it’s easy to think that the big show is going on over ...

Sally, one of my lab mates, takes amazing videos of protists under the microscope (she posts these on her Instagram, pondlife_pondlife – go check it out). She showed me this video of a Dinoflagellate, ...

It’s only a one-hour drive between Orlando’s theme park attractions and Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. The route crosses over one of the most biodiverse habitats in North America—but most ...