Marine Microorganisms: Surviving Mass Extinction By Leading A Double Life
Saturday, July 18, 2009 - 22:28
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Drifting across the world's oceans are a group of unicellular marine microorganisms that are not only a crucial source of food for other marine life -- but their fossils, which are found in abundance, provide scientists with an extraordinary record of climatic change and other major events in the history of the Earth.
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