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 ...

Cal State biologists and the group Orange County Coastkeeper are working together to use oyster shells from local restaurants ...

Invasive species such as cats, emerald ash borers, pigs, fire ants and hemlock woolly adelgids are causing changes to ...

One adult oyster can filter more than 50 gallons of water in 24 hours. Rating: True (About this rating?) In early 2025, opinion pieces and memes resurfaced an oft-repeated science fact: An adult ...

If there is a consistent point made by scientists, shellfish experts, educators and farmers about oysters and their important ecological role, it is that one modest bivalve can filter up to 50 gallons ...

Many years ago, marine biologist Roger Newell of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Studies, now a professor emeritus, approximated that a single oyster could filter 50 gallons of ...

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 ...