Shells Provide Deep-Time Look at Marine Habitats (IMAGE)

Florida Museum of Natural History

Shells Provide Deep-Time Look at Marine Habitats

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Researchers collected more than 50,000 modern and fossil shells to study how seagrass meadows changed over time. Dead mollusk communities, including these Chione elevata, are useful archives of how a habitat looked hundreds or thousands of years ago.

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Natalie van Hoose/Florida Museum

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