• Question: Have you found any Foraminifera's yet?

    Asked by emanresu to Kate on 12 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Kate Salmon

      Kate Salmon answered on 12 Mar 2014:


      Hi @Emanresu, I have found lots of foraminfera thanks! There are lots in my samples, sometimes thousands! Foraminifera are microscopic and some of the biggest ones I’ve found are still only 0.5mm big.

      They have also been around for the last 300 million years of earths history so we can look at ancient foraminifera to tell us something about what the oceans were like when the dinosaurs were around…

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