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Why Do These Fossil Shells Flip Their Spirals Every Few Millennia? - Quanta Magazine

Why Do These Fossil Shells Flip Their Spirals Every Few Millennia? - Quanta Magazine

The mystery of the flipping foraminifera may conceal a rarely observed evolutionary process playing out across the planet.

Its probably one of the first times that people who usually do more biostratigraphy basically, deep-time research on foraminifera are approaching such a question, said Julie Meilland, a researcher at… [+5750 chars]

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