Ah, the Olympia oyster, the plains buffalo of western mollusks: a golden memory of primordial abundance.

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There are fictional aliens that resemble little green men, mollusks, insects, plants, and minerals.

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This time we're joined by Kevin Roe, a listener with an unusual job title: Curator of Mollusks.

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It sounds like the setup for a joke, as God only knows what freakish mollusks lurk in that fetid post-industrial waterway.

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She sold the clams to the neighbors in her area, who were nice enough to buy mollusks from a little girl.

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It is believed to harbor 250 species of coral, 500 of fish and 600 of mollusks, many of them unique in the world.

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The firm has received funding to create Oyster-tecture, an oyster park at the mouth of the canal where millions of mollusks will "eat" toxins.

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The rich were also guzzling the salty mollusks with abandon.

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And what this means to life in the oceans is potentially disastrous: corals and mollusks have more difficulty making shells, plankton at the base of the food chain become less viable, and whole ecosystems are potentially threatened.

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