cockle
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“This tells us that all of those nearly identical cancers came from a single cockle in the past,” Metzger said.
From Seattle Times • May 22, 2023
She hopes new cockle research will help explain how changing ocean acidity and marine heat affect the transmission or lethal effects of the cancer, and offer methods to protect other native shellfish.
From Seattle Times • May 22, 2023
He was speaking from Rio where he is installing his follow-up work, 10,000 Lives, about the world of the Chinese cockle pickers who drowned on Morecambe Bay in 2004.
From The Guardian • Sep. 11, 2016
Following the 2004 cockle picking tragedy in Morecambe Bay, anyone who provides workers to farms should have a licence from the Gangmasters Licensing Authority.
From BBC • Dec. 3, 2015
At the same moment the women screamed, for the boat tossed like a cockle shell beneath them.
From In the Van; or, The Builders by Price-Brown, John
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