Nerdy details: we show using #stableisotopes of #carbon (δ¹³C) and #oxygen (δ¹⁸O) that **ONLY** Miliolida benthic foraminifera (including #Pyrgo, #Quinqueloculina, & #Spiroloculina - pictures attached) found **ONLY** in sediments proximal to methane hydrates (site U1446 is in the NW Bay of Bengal) contain wildly negative δ¹³C signatures characteristics associated with methane dynamics in marine sediments. Check out those δ¹³C values!!