cockle
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She hopes new cockle research will help explain how changing ocean acidity and marine heat affect the transmission or lethal effects of the cancer, and offer methods to protect other native shellfish.
From Seattle Times • May 22, 2023
“When our team went back a year later, it was just covered in cockle shells,” Barber said.
From Seattle Times • May 22, 2023
More recently, treating it using a combination of compost, limestone and cockle shells has been more effective.
From BBC • May 2, 2018
Shell Beach is made up of billions of shells, specifically cockle shells that breed unchecked due to the high salinity of the water and the lack of predators able to survive in all that salt.
From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2017
Lake Winnebago is a notable inland sea, and the canoeist feels fairly lost, in his little cockle shell, bobbing about over its great waves.
From Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers by Thwaites, Reuben Gold
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