The Chesapeake Bay — the largest estuary in the continental United States — used to be packed with oysters, more than anyone today might imagine. Native Americans had been harvesting oysters there for ...
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Rare Miocene fossils join CMM holdings

Longtime fossil collector Barry Norbeck donated thousands of shells and other invertebrate fossils to the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, Md., on Jan. 9, 2026. Museum officials described the ...