shells
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The area is littered with massive piles of shells called middens, left by indigenous groups who ate the river’s wild oysters for more than a thousand years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Nineteen homes across five streets in the town were completely destroyed by the fire last week, with eight households left able to view the shells of their former homes.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The cyclical freezing and thawing of soil also brings old shells to the surface, Goldammer said, much as flower beds can seem to produce fresh stones every winter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Astronomers are still working to understand why this swept-up gas forms such complicated arrangements of rings and shells, structures that are commonly seen in planetary nebulae.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
She did her charts and cleaned the hut; dusted, shook, and swept; got new palm fronds to make Alex’s bed; arranged sea shells around the coconut pearl and her mother’s picture.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
