MIAMI — On a Sunday morning in October, a group of South Florida residents of varying ages gathered at Kennedy Park in Coconut Grove for a citizen science project. About 30,000 oyster shells have been ...

To admire South Carolina’s marshes, harbors, bays, rivers and creeks is also to admire the critters keeping them clean. Oysters are the Palmetto State’s most ubiquitous filter feeder. They provide ...

FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) - There's an oyster "catching" going in the waters of Fort Lauderdale, it's part of a pilot program that aims to help naturally filter polluted waterways. Long before the ...

Chuck Quinn, a member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, doesn’t just love to eat oysters, he raises them in a community garden in Southold. “I like eating them, and the process of growing them is a ...

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The health of the Manatee River has become a main focus of the non-profit, Oyster River Ecology. The organization is working ...

Not all bivalves are created equal. Oysters and clams are both bivalves—animals with two connected shells—but they have more differences than similarities. While the differences may not be obvious at ...

Yes, we like to make jokes about oysters. They sound funny when we eat them. And easy “goo on a half shell” jibes do make people laugh. But you won’t find scientists, ecologists, oceanographers, or ...

The boat glides through the tranquil waters of the Hawkesbury River near the village of Mooney Mooney, about 45 minutes north of Sydney, where only a small sign on a pier reveals that there is an ...