Knowridge Science Report

Ancient marine animals began living in empty shells 470 million years ago

Around 470 million years ago, life in Earth’s oceans took an important evolutionary step when marine animals began moving ...

Florida returned half a million oyster shells to the Gulf of Mexico. The discarded shells became new reef habitat for marine life

Florida restored parts of the Gulf of Mexico by returning more than 500,000 tonnes of recycled oyster and clam shells to the ...

Florida dumped half a million oyster shells into the Gulf of Mexico. No one expected the results to be this good.

Florida dumped 500,000 tons of oyster shells into the Gulf of Mexico, which helped rebuild damaged reefs and restore marine ...
Phys.org

Discarded oyster shells may pull rare earth metals from polluted water

New research from a team at Trinity College Dublin has unearthed a cheap and environmentally friendly new option for removing pollutants from our water. The key? Oyster shells that would ordinarily ...
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Used oyster shells dumped into water to help restore ecosystem

Fishermen have taken oysters out of the Long Island Sound off Connecticut for generations. But Todd Koehnke and Tim Macklin have made it their mission to dump millions of old shells back in. Oyster ...
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Slow-moving shell of water can make Parkinson’s proteins ‘stickier’

Water – which makes up the majority of every cell in the body – plays a key role in how proteins, including those associated with Parkinson’s disease, fold, misfold, or clump together, according to a ...