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 ...

We can access these fossils in cores sampled regularly by ocean drilling programmes. Single-celled planktonic foraminifera and calcareous nannoplankton (coccolithophores) are two key and abundant ...

Research has also shown that single-celled organisms known as foraminifera struggle to build their shells in more acidic waters, with them now producing thinner structures. The ocean is a major carbon ...