Deep learning is driving recent advances behind many everyday technologies, including
speech and image recognition, natural language processing and autonomous driving. It is …

Applications of fossil shells of planktonic foraminifera to decipher past environmental
change and plankton evolution require a robust operational taxonomy. In this respect, extant …

Understanding the long-term effects of ongoing global environmental change on marine
ecosystems requires a cross-disciplinary approach. Deep-time and recent fossil records can …

Widely regarded as an imminent threat to our oceans, ocean acidification has been
documented in all oceanic basins. Projected changes in seawater chemistry will have …

Zircon is a widely-used heavy mineral in geochronological and geochemical research
because it can extract important information to understand the history and genesis of rocks …

Manual identification of foraminiferal morphospecies or morphotypes under stereo
microscopes is time consuming for micropalaeontologists and not possible for …

The rapid and accurate taxonomic identification of fossils is of great significance in
paleontology, biostratigraphy, and other fields. However, taxonomic identification is often …

Petrographic analysis based on microfacies identification in thin sections is widely used in
sedimentary environment interpretation and paleoecological reconstruction. Fossil …

The accumulation of large datasets and increasing data availability have led to the
emergence of data-driven paleontological studies, which reveal an unprecedented picture of …

Paleontologists generally use a low-cost electro-optical system to classify microfossils. This
manual identification is a time-consuming process and it may take about a long time …