Wild Oysters Face Extinction Amid Environmental Decline

TIME:

You know that list of vanishing species you keep hearing about? The one full of species that have been on the earth for millions of years, but that have recently become as scarce as liberal op-ed columnists? Well, you can now add wild oysters to the list, simple bivalves that go back nearly 250 million years, to the Triassic period. (Something that looked, and probably tasted, much like oysters probably goes back a lot farther.)

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[lw1]

08:09 PM on 02/11/2011

Thanks BP - yet another gift from you - the destruction of the last wild oysters.