These photographs were taken with an electron microscope, and show in remarkable detail the surface of three foraminifers found in sediment. The two ball-like clusters are minute plankton which live at the ocean surface. The flatter shell is a form that lives on the seabed.
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NIWA – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
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