In a 2023 study, Pearson and colleagues used foraminifera fossil data to predict the fate of the ocean’s twilight zone, a region roughly 650 feet to 3,250 feet below the surface.

The findings, published on June 30 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, open up new clues to understanding how environmental changes shape evolution. Dr Anieke Brombacher, lead ...

For hundreds of millions of years, the oceans have teemed with single-celled organisms called foraminifera, hard-shelled, microscopic creatures at the bottom of the food chain. The fossil record ...

Cushman was a pioneer in the use of foraminifera to support oil exploration in North America, developing a classification method that for the first time allowed foraminifera to be used ... crawled on ...

Nitrogen isotopes preserved within fossil foraminifera enabled the scientists to track past changes in column denitrification in the water. This process, ...

Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects.

image: Images of foraminifera fossils created by a scanning electronic microscope. view more . Credit: Dustin Harper. At the end of the Paleocene and beginning of the Eocene epochs, between 59 to ...