Foraminifera are single-celled marine protozoa that construct and inhabit a calcium carbonate shell composed of several chambers. These chambers are usually penetrated by pores through which the ...

Yes, you read that correctly. Foraminifera can give scientists clues about the age of rocks and ancient climates to figure ...

A recently published study in Science challenges theories regarding the origins of a significant transition through the Earth ...

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This conclusion is drawn from studies of the shells of single-celled foraminifera that lived about 21,000 years ago during ...

The Museum has a strong tradition of foraminifera research dating back to the late 1800s. As a result, the foraminifera collection - with approximately 250,000 slides - is the most extensive of our ...

New types of foraminifera and sea urchins replaced those that had died off in earlier mass extinctions. But the biggest development in the seas was the appearance of whales in the mid- to late ...

Pink sand beaches, located in countries like Greece, Indonesia, Bermuda, and the Bahamas, receive their distinct color from the red and pink shells of foraminifera. These unique shorelines are ...

Three Rowan University scholars – a faculty member, a recent graduate and a Ph.D. student – took part in a North Atlantic ...

His research at the graduate school focuses on the response of coral reefs to global warming. Foraminifera research is rare in the world, and its cultivation is a first such attempt worldwide. If we ...

We are leading a growing programme of research on planktonic foraminifera, using their excellent fossil record to draw conclusions about evolutionary dynamics. A clade of open-ocean protists, ...