1. Different types of foraminifera thrive at different temperatures.

2. Foraminifera indicate an outer neritic paleobathymetric setting.

3. Most of the foraminifera were soft-walled, either spherical or needle-shaped,(Sentencedict) and coloured brown.

4. This fauna is associated with Foraminifera, sponge spicules and Brachiopoda et al.

5. According to conodont , coral and foraminifera fossils discovered, the geological age of this sequence of sedimentary strata is Early Carboniferous.

6. "Before the mass extinction, most of the foraminifera species were comparatively large, very flamboyant, very specialized, very ornate, with many chambers, " Keller explained.

7. As such, these puny foraminifera serve as very distinct tags of when the K-T extinction event started.

8. The foraminifera that followed were extremely tiny, one-twentieth the size of the species before, with absolutely no ornamentation, just a few chambers.

9. The team found that species of foraminifera living on the sea floor around the time of the ice age contained more carbon than those that floated at the surface (Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.1188605).

10. But these shells are absent from the foraminifera found in Challenger Deep.

11. The benthic extinction event (BEE) and larger foraminifera turnover (LFT) during the Paleocene-Eocene transition constitutes an important step in Paleogene larger-foraminifera evolution.

12. The fossils of algae, ostracoda, foraminifera , gastropod and polychaeta were found in the Tertiary carbonate beds in the west of Chaidamu Basin.

13. The scientists began decoding that record by mapping the distribution of different foraminifera species -- or "forams" -- at 10 North Carolina marsh sites.

14. Looking like a puffy white star studded with little pearls, this is the shell of an amoeboid protist called a foraminifera, or foram.

15. Globs of mud pulled from the trench have yielded an assortment of bacteria, fungi and primitive single-celled organisms called foraminifera.

16. This 2001 paper in Science used the record of carbon and oxygen isotopes in foraminifera to reconstruct the climate rhythms of the last 65 million years.

17. Taketomi Island, Okinawa, JapanLooking like a puffy white star studded with little pearls, this is the shell of an amoeboid protist called a foraminifera, or foram.

18. Oceanic production of calcium carbonate is conventionally attributed to marine plankton (coccolithophores and foraminifera ).

19. Besides other fragments of hemoglobin and other similar compound coming from the blood of animals, such as foraminifera, minute crustaceans and small worms.

20. Rising carbon dioxide levels acidify the ocean, which has a particularly devastating effect on organisms that have calcium carbonate shells, like Foraminifera.

21. No surprise there -- from coral to clams to microscopic foraminifera, shelled critters make their hard parts out of calcium carbonate (CaCO3).

22. These skeletal remains from creatures such as molluscs, crustacean and foraminifera create a pearly white sand beach.

23. Stewart Fallon of the Australian National University in Canberra and his colleagues collected samples from drill cores of the marine crust of tiny marine fossils called foraminifera.

24. That steady accumulation of muck traps tiny organisms called foraminifera, plant matter and other substances that form a natural record of sea level rise.