"Foraminifera are extremely abundant on Earth ... More information: Fatma Gomaa et al, Array of metabolic pathways in a kleptoplastidic foraminiferan protist supports chemoautotrophy in dark, euxinic ...

Tiny organisms called foraminifera can be incredibly useful for protecting coral reefs. Promovenda Elsa B. Girard developed a method to study them more efficiently. “This way, you can act before the ...

The FORALIEN project aims to fill the knowledge gap on non-indigenous microorganisms in Swedish coastal waters to improve environmental quality assessment tools. The project focuses on benthic ...

Foraminifera are tiny single-celled organisms, either floating in the ocean surface or living on the seabed. Most of them build shells made of calcium carbonate to protect themselves.

Planktonic foraminifera are tiny marine organisms, which are essential to the ocean's carbon cycle. A recent study reveals that these populations are shrinking at an alarming rate due to ...

This isn't a starfish—it's a rare sand found only in Japan Star sand is both a beautiful sight and a scientific marvel. Each grain once housed a tiny single-celled organism.

Some very simple organisms are capable of very complex behavior, like fungi that exhibit signs of memory or bacterial cells that can orchestrate their activity and work as a larger organism.

Curved origami-like pleats make it possible for the single-celled protist Lacrymaria olor to extend its neck up to 30 times its body length in less than 30 seconds.

The Rhizaria is a super-group of amoeboid protists with ubiquitous distributions, from the euphotic zone to the twilight zone and beyond. While rhizarians have been recently described as important ...

Almost all eukaryotic organisms, from plants and animals to fungi, can't survive without mitochondria, which generate chemical energy using oxygen. However, a new study by Lukáš Novák and ...

Foraminifera are mostly marine organisms that have been around for about 550 million years and when they die, their shells accumulate on the ocean floor and become part of the ocean sediment.