Scientists have discovered the key role the Southern Ocean around Antarctica plays in regulating the global climate ...

Foraminifera are single-celled marine organisms with a calcareous shell. They not only provide evidence of past habitats, but also play an important role in sediment formation. Along tropical and ...

View through the eyepiece of a dissecting microscope showing a group of 25 N. stella foraminifera. Foraminifer are extremely abundant on Earth. Most are only about 300 microns in diameter.

We owe much of our recent knowledge of the biology of the Foraminifera to Dr. E. H. Myers. His new publication* is a peculiarly beautiful example of his work, embracing the complete life-cycle of ...

Between 18,000 and 11,000 years ago, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere suddenly shot up. This caused rapid ...

A recent study published in Nature Communications reveals how carbon dioxide levels surged during the end of the last ice age ...

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 ...

56, No. 5, 2011 Temperature-induced stress leads to blea... Physiological mechanisms of bleaching were studied on larger benthic foraminifera (LBF) hosting endosymbiotic diatoms. Amphistegina radiata, ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 57, No. 4 (2012), pp. 1011-1024 (14 pages) We investigated the controls on the δ15N values of shell-bound organic matter of planktonic foraminifera (foraminifera-bound ...