If you have ever caught yourself wondering how Spongebob Squarepants characters would look if they were humans, you have found yourself an answer! Polly, an illustrator from Russia, must have had the same nagging question because she has turned everyone’s beloved marine characters into humans.

Author: Carolyn Gramling / Source: Science News When tiny sea algae get sick, they may sneeze the seeds of clouds. Phytoplankton (Emiliania huxleyi) infected with a virus shed the small calcium carbonate plates that make up their shells much more quickly than healthy phytoplankton. Kicked up by

Scientists have unveiled the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of the world's ocean plankton, the tiny organisms that serve as food for marine creatures such as the blue whale - and provide half the oxygen we breathe. The researchers spent 3-1/2 years aboard the schooner Tara, taking