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

Fanni Daniella Szakál is a marine biologist turned science writer. Her work has appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, and Hakai Magazine.

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The group — consisting of then-postdocs Sahar Diskin and Philip Easo, graduate student Ritvik Ramanan Radhakrishnan, Benny ...

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