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For this foraminifera species, the answer is chemoautotrophy, a metabolic process that utilizes inorganic energy sources, ...

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.

Starsand Foraminifera from the Great Barrier Reef (Australia): Researchers from the University of Bonn found out that such tiny foraminifera in the oceans can save islands.

Foraminifera can have one or many nuclei and can reproduce asexually or sexually. The majority of foraminifera live on or within the seafloor sediment while a smaller number float in the water’s ...

Benthic foraminifera are widely used as paleoenvironmental proxies because of their high sensitivity to environmental changes and excellent preservation potential in sediment. Affected by global ...

The Foraminifera phylum includes some 10,000 species that create shells of various designs. Star-shaped shells, such as the kind above created by the Baculogypsina sphaerulata species, are rare.

That is, save for a group known as the foraminifera (aka forams), hard-shelled organisms that look like Dippin’ Dots.Around 40 of the 4,000 species of foram are planktonic, drifting or floating ...

Experiments with tiny, shelled organisms in the ocean suggest big changes to the global carbon cycle are underway, according to a study from the University of California, Davis. For the study, ...

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 ...