Small Sea Creatures May Be The ‘Canaries In The Coal Mine’ Of Climate Change
As oceans warm and become more acidic, ocean creatures are undergoing severe stress and entire food webs are at risk, according to molecular ecologists. Biologists have just returned from a research mission to Antarctica where they collected pteropods, tiny marine snails the size of a lentil, that one biologist refers to as the “potato chip” of the oceans because they are eaten widely by so many species.