An assistant professor in Nova Scotia has been awarded a five-year grant to study the double impact of microplastics and climate change on aquatic organisms.

Each lobster larva was stained in fast green and mounted in Canadian balsam or clarite. In nature, these animals are flat, leaf-like, and nearly transparent; however, this staining process makes these ...

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This phyllosoma, a lobster larva, is just 1.2 centimetres across. With a flattened body and eyes on stalks, its spindly legs grip the empty bell of a small dead jellyfish, a mauve stinger. When alive, ...

are one of the rarest and most expensive lobster varieties. The colorful crustaceans are so valuable that there have even been international smuggling attempts of its larvae. Commercially-bred ...

Jordan Park will conduct the research at Université Sainte-Anne using lobster larvae and zooplankton. Park hopes to trace whether microplastics end up in lobster found in Atlantic waters.