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Original – The foraminifer Globigerina bulloides, one of the earth's major carbon sinks
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Freely licensed, SVG file, depicts an organism seldom illustrated on Wikipedia
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Globigerina bulloides
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Wikipedia:Featured_pictures#Other_lifeforms
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KDS4444


  • Comment It may seem simple or unimportant— it is neither. This single-cell organism may be the most important thing currently standing between us and a runaway greenhouse effect produced by man-made carbon dioxide. Its "test" (shell), which is made up of carbon and calcium, helps lock up carbon molecules for aeons in the floor of the earth's oceans. We have very few photos or diagrams of this animal— this one shows it in the process of creating a new chamber (much like a nautilus).