@ohmu they're awesome! It's an honor to join them to nerd out about our Bay

@dantheclamman Even in historic times oyster reefs in places like the Chesapeake Bay were much larger than currently. There are some efforts to bring them back underway but on a pretty small scale to date. In researching this post I learned that Maryland once had an Oyster Navy (per […]

Image source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232701369_Geologic_and_Biologic_Controls_on_the_Evolution_of_Reefs

@soaproot a lot of them, yes! though periostracum can have a bright golden color just due to coincidental properties of the proteins involved!

Image source: https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article-abstract/125/2/377/5090050

Someone just pointed out I peer reviewed The Onion and I think they're right. What have I done

@w7voa this really is a nice physical manifestation of what they've done to the entire government. So many public servants persecuted and forced out. Decades of expertise annihilated.

@steggy same order as geoducks and similar deep burrowing strategy!

Image sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walrus_and_the_Carpenter#/media/File%3ABriny_Beach.jpg
https://www.marlin.ac.uk/species/detail/1626

@lightweight @joncounts of course you have your own endemics! not much written about them https://doi.org/10.1080/13235818.1999.10673720

@joncounts @lightweight sphaeriids attach to birds and sometimes amphibians. I am not familiar with the most common dispersal methods In NZ!

@skinnylatte @joncounts pea clams are so cool!! I wonder how these ones distributed there? Will have to read up!

@soaproot oh yes. The shipworms really are some of the weirdest clams we have. They just are built different, in most ways