1.   The oil spill has killed off billions of microscopic sea plants, thus threatening Marine life further up the food chain.

2.   But it was deadly to bay scallops and microscopic sea life, and suffocated large beds of seaweed that provide spawning grounds for fish.

3.   But swarms of microscopic sea creatures rose from deeper waters to feast on the rich new pastures, while much of the heavy iron sank.

4.   Neither plant nor animal, the one-celled organism is a microscopic sea monster that has killed more than a billion fish in North Carolina in recent years.

5.   Red tides are caused by microscopic sea plants called phytoplankton.

6.   The observations, described in the current issue of Nature, showed enormous production of the microscopic sea creatures known as diatoms.

7.   The whalebones will be disassembled and tagged, then placed in locked, underwater cages to sit and allow microscopic sea animals to clean every crevice in them.

8.   Scientists caution that other types of microscopic sea life also can produce toxins.