Foraminifera are single-celled marine organisms with a calcareous shell. They not only provide evidence of past habitats, but ...

Foraminifera—or forams for short—have ... The researchers found that after the MMR, calcareous forams—which build their shells by secreting calcium carbonate—flourished, going on to ...

An enigmatic mass extinction occurred in the deep oceans during the Mid Pleistocene, with a loss of over 100 species (20%) of sea floor calcareous foraminifera. An evolutionarily conservative ...

Foraminifera of the variety Amphistegina are stabilizing coastlines and reefs with their calcareous shells. The study's results have now appeared in the international online journal PLOS ONE.

Foraminifera — or forams for short — have ... The researchers found that after the MMR, calcareous forams — which build their shells by secreting calcium carbonate — flourished, going ...

The foraminifera form calcareous shells called tests in which the content of oxygen-18 depends on the temperature of the water in which they live. Changes in the ocean's temperature over time were ...

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 ...