During reef assessments conducted each fall, MDMR observed growing numbers of oyster larvae attached to adult oyster shells, agency leaders said. It takes these attached larvae, known as spat, one to ...
Kurlansky writes that Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan was built with oyster shell mortar, and the nearby Pearl Street, originally on the waterfront, got its name from a 'midden', a mountain of ...
Ancient peoples were looking after their teeth with – admittedly unappealing – concoctions that included animal bones, herbs and, in the case of the Romans, human wee. There was no single inventor, bu ...