Plankton Bloom Surrounds Chatham Islands
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=35913
Plankton Found in 100-Million-Year-Old Amber
Scientists have discovered for the first time a menagerie of perfectly intact marine microorganisms trapped in tree resin at least 100 million years ago, according to a new study.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/11/17/amber-diatom.html
Tiny Plankton Contribute to Continental Crackups
The skeletons of microscopic plankton that flourished billions of years ago may be tearing continents apart, according to a researcher who thinks that rocks built from plankton skeletons – known as black shale – form huge weak areas in Earth's crust.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/11/17/plankton-continents.html
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