Blog Post Image: Scientists solve a 14,000-year-old ocean mystery

A scanning electron microscope image reveals a resting spore of the Chaetoceros diatom, a kind of phytoplankton that may have grown abundant during the burst of biological activity that followed the end of the last Ice Age in the North Pacific Ocean. (Photo by Beth Caissie)

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