Foraminifera (forams) are shelled microorganisms that are abundant in the Earth’s seabed. Analyzing different species of forams provides important information about climate change, the state of the ...

As scientific knowledge evolves, researchers often find that their old assumptions — even ones underpinning centuries of work — no longer apply. The same principle is at play when it comes to ...

More than 2,000 years ago Aristotle, often referred to as the "first scientist," set out to create a method of naming, defining and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared ...