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To: Brumar89 who wrote (941515)6/20/2016 10:23:09 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Respond to of 1572599
 
IIRC, he said, "Thou shalt not bear false witness, and I'm not gonna die so you can."

Thinning mussel shells beginning in the 1970s.

Something Strange and Terrible Is Happening to Mussels

A team of researchers from the University of Chicago has been comparing the shells of live mussels pulled from the Pacific coast today with historical shells, some of them thousands of years old. They’ve come to an alarming realization: Mussel shells are getting thinner and thinner.

Shells collected that are over 1,000 years old are on average 27 percent thicker than today’s shells, the researchers note in new paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Thick shells were the norm until about the 1970s, when shells were 32 percent thicker than they are today. Then, things suddenly started to get thin fast.

The unsettling cause for the thinning shells is the rapidly acidifying waters of the Pacific Ocean. Essentially, the mussels are in the process of a slow dissolve in the acid bath they now spend their lives stewing in.
gizmodo.com