by Christoph — Three months ago, I in­tro­duced to this blog "Ocean's Tini­est Preda­tor" based on a very re­cent pa­per by Ka­men­naya et al. (2018) who claimed to have iden­ti­fied Braaru­dosphaera bigelowii, a mem­ber of the pho­to­syn­thetic al­gal clade Hap­to­phyta, as a preda­tor of the abun­dant ma­rine Cyanobac­terium Prochloro­coc­cus. Our reader Benedetto pointed out...

by Christoph — In pop­u­lar terms, the ma­rine food chain goes like this: "phy­to­plank­ton feed the zoo­plank­ton that feed the small fish (lar­vae) and crus­taceans that feed the larger fish that feed the even big­ger fish that feed us". Thus we have us, Homo sapi­ens, to­gether with the great white shark, Car­char­o­don car­charias, and...