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Half-billion-year-old parasite still threatens shellfish
November 04, 2025
RIVERSIDE, California, Nov. 4 -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news:

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Half-billion-year-old parasite still threatens shellfish

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A new study has unexpectedly discovered that a common parasite of modern oysters actually started infecting bivalves hundreds of millions of years before the dinosaurs went extinct.

The research, published in iScience, used high-resolution 3D scans to look inside . . .

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