This is a foraminiferan, a single-celled organism extending its cell like a spider web to capture food in real-time. . Foraminifera are fascinating organisms, they form shell-like structures to hide their soft cell inside and those shells can be as big as a coin and can get fossilized. When the Greek geographer Strabo was visiting Egypt in the 1st century BCE, he saw foraminifera fossils in the pyramids’ stones and thought those were petrified beans in stone that had been left from the meals of