Thursday 12 March 2015

Stuck-in-the-mud plankton reveal ancient temperatures

FLORA AND FAUNA
Stuck-in-the-mud plankton reveal ancient temperatures
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 11, 2015 - New research in Nature Communications showing how tiny creatures drifted across the ocean before falling to the seafloor and being fossilised has the potential to improve our understanding of past climates. The research published in Nature Communications has identified which planktic foraminifera gathered up in core samples from the ocean floor, drifted thousands of kilometres and which sp ... more


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