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A screenshot from video showing Brian Huber behind a microscope.

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Smithsonian Paleobiologist Brian Huber

March 2010

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Screenshot from video showing tiny foraminifera.

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Foraminifera on the Seafloor

March 2010

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Forams are tiny single-celled organisms.

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Foraminifera

March 2010

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Lenticulina secans-- this “benthic” foram lives on the seafloor. This specimen was collected from southeastern Tanzania.

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Lenticulina secans

March 2010

Hantkenina mexicana -- a foram with elongated shell chambers that lived between 45-49 million years ago, during the Eocene Epoch.

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Hantkenina mexicana

March 2010