Back in 2006, Mike Meyer was an undergraduate student at the University of South Florida looking for fossils in the shell-packed walls of a quarry near Sarasota, the cross-section of which offered a ...
PISMO BEACH, Calif. — Pismo Beach loved its clams. More than a century ago, farmers with horse-drawn plows would comb the sand and haul the clams off by the wagon-full. The meat was fed to the hogs.
A new study reveals a bright spot for shellfish populations in the northeast Pacific Ocean. Combining paleontological tools and archaeological data with conservation research, the paper finds that, ...