By: Collin, Ben, Austin, Dominick, Cosmo, Hee Young, Dakota

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All about Oysters
By Collin, Ben, Austin, Dominick, Cosmo, Hee
Young, Dakota
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The scientific name of an oyster is Crassostrea
gigas or bivalve mollusk.
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An interesting thing about an oyster is that it
can change into a male or female.
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An oyster produces a pearl when foreign material
becomes trapped inside the shell.
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The largest oyster in the world is three feet
long.
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The meat of the oyster tends to become thicker
when the water is colder.
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Today the population of oysters is one percent of
what it use to be.
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There is a large oyster population in the
Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.
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