Diving into a shallow, sunlit ocean in the Paleozoic, we find a group of straight-shelled nautiloids, 2 m long, perhaps congregating for mating. The movie was made using the "Povray" ray tracer on an SGI computer.

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Body Position and the Functional Morphology of Cretaceous Heteromorph Ammonites
Neale Monks and Jeremy R. Young

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Evidence of Binary Division in Mature Central Capsules of a Collosphaerid Colonial Radiolarian: Implications for Shell Ontogenetic Patterns in Modern and Fossil Species
O. Roger Anderson and Shyam M. Gupta

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Application of the Modern Analog Technique (MAT) of Sea Surface Temperature Estimation to Middle Pliocene North Pacific Planktonic Foraminifer Assemblages
Harry J. Dowsett and Marci M. Robinson

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Identification Key for Holocene Lacustrine Arcellacean (Thecamoebian) Taxa
Arun Kumar and Andrew P. Dalby

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Surveying Natural Populations
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