Fossilized Tiny Animals Provide Clues to Past Climate Change

Tiny aquatic creatures, no larger than a grain of sand, can yield significant details of past climate changes, as long as scientists know what they are looking for. Billions of these tiny organisms can be found on the bottom of the ocean, and they hold inside them information about past sea l... [ read more >> ]

Professor Mimi Katz studies these delicate deep-sea fossils to reconstruct the climates of Earth up to 250 million years ago

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Professor Mimi Katz studies these delicate deep-sea fossils to reconstruct the climates of Earth up to 250 million years ago