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 ...

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.

Foraminifera are tiny single-celled organisms, either floating in the ocean surface or living on the seabed (Getty Images) Your support helps us to tell the story. Read more. Support Now.

Many foraminifera found refuge in or near the Southern Ocean around Antarctica. Another mass extinction started around 33.9 million years ago, caused by a big dip in temperatures in a period ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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, ...

Found on the beaches of Okinawa, Japan, and across the south and west Pacific, this special sand is very rare. “In Okinawa, some islands like Taketomi, Hatoma and Iriomote are famous for finding ...