For too long plankton have slaved away in obscurity, making the world a better place for generations of ungrateful humans. Until now. Find out how much you owe these little guys with Nature Video’s Five Reasons To Thank Plankton.

For more videos of super photogenic plankton, check out http://www.planktonchronicles.org or try http://planktonchronicles.org/book to find out more about the new book ‘Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World’ by Christian Sardet (BioDev, Observatoire Océanologique Villefranche sur Mer UPMC/CNRS).

Find out about recent research from the Tara Oceans Expedition here:
http://www.nature.com/news/global-oce...

Or via the CNRS (http://www.cnrs.fr/index.php) or Tara Oceans homepage (http://oceans.taraexpeditions.org/en/).

2nd June 2015