The shells are separated into two piles. In one are shells that are dry and have been completely picked clean of oyster bits. The other, more recently deposited pile has a fishy aroma that’s quite ...

Oyster beds can be built upon the dead ancestors.Getty Images Oysters are unique among shellfish in that they build their beds vertically — upon the shells ... and very soon we will be forced ...

Just one problem. The game was in Arizona. “Big, big, big beach, but no ocean,” said Jack Groh, director of NFL Green. But amid the desert’s open soil and cactuses is the 200-mile Salt River ...

NEW ORLEANS -- -- Oysters get shucked and swallowed by the ton in the French Quarter's busy restaurants, and at day's end trash bags dumped on the narrow streets bulge with oyster shells.

A trowel placed in a Native American oyster midden that dates to about 1,000 years ago shows the relative size of the shells ... thought we would find.” Really big oysters were more common ...