The shells of planktonic foraminifera, recovered from thousands of years old sediments in the Atlantic Ocean, show how biodiversity in the oceans could develop with climate change. (IMAGE)

University of Oldenburg

The shells of planktonic foraminifera, recovered from thousands of years old sediments in the Atlantic Ocean, show how biodiversity in the oceans could develop with climate change.

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Calcified shells of planktonic foraminifera from Caribbean sediments. The individual shells are less than a millimeter in size and can only be identified properly under a microscope.

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Wilfried Rönnfeld / University of Bremen

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