Surviving mass extinction by leading a double life
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 10:56
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.