Between 18,000 and 11,000 years ago, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere suddenly shot up. This caused rapid global warming, the mass melting of glaciers, and the end of the last ice age.

Foraminifera provide scientists with an invaluable fossil record. Their exquisite outer shells, normally too small for the naked eye, inspired sculptures in Zhongshan, China. Bilal Haq Bilal Haq, a ...

They are beautiful, they are everywhere, and they are absurdly unknown: you are entirely forgiven if you've never heard of foraminifera before. But they play a huge role in the functioning of marine ...

Fish predation or cropping of foraminifera is widespread on coral reefs. At Eniwetok Atoll, live foraminifera are taken by herbivorous grazers that crop close to the substrate, occasionally by ...

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 ...

Impact of single-cell organisms on sediment oxygen levels and bacterial diversity measured for the first time. Dr. Dewi Langlet, a scientist at the Evolution, Cell Biology and Symbiosis Unit at the ...

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 ...

Certain species of arenaceous and calcareous foraminifera occur in waters of very low salinity in Venezuela. These forms are also known in the same region from Tertiary sediments which for other ...

Microscopic fossils of aquatic creatures, dating back hundreds of millions of years, could help clear up mysteries about how we evolved. Evolutionary ecologist, Dr Thomas Ezard, is undertaking an ...