Discovery of ‘ghost’ fossils reveals plankton resilience to past global warming

The discovery of ‘ghost’ fossils reveals plankton resilience to past global warming. Picture: S M Slater, P Bown et al/Science journal

The discovery of fossils – or “ghosts” – of plankton that lived millions of years ago is shedding new light on how they reacted to global warming events in the past.

An international team of scientists have discovered a new type of fossilisation that has remained almost entirely overlooked.