We went and found these incredible clam beds sitting on the barren rock.

Do you like mussels?

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Gramshell's folly.

I'm allergic to shellfish.

This is the shell.

Off the coast of California comes this

What do you want to eat right now?

Now, you've heard about this in terms of nanotechnology.

I don't like shellfish.

Now in the laboratory, if you take a clam and you put it in the pH that is not 8.1, which is the normal pH of seawater, but 7.5, it dissolves in about three days.

I didn't talk, because I played a waiting game.

This is just a simple list of some of the types of poisons that come out of these harmful algal blooms shellfish poisoning,fish ciguatera, diarrheic shellfish poisoning you don't want to know about that neurotoxic shellfish poisoning, paralytic shellfish poisoning.

And you look behind you, and there's destruction all around you.

You're so clever, but you're not as clever as a clam.

But when you look closer at this, look at what's there, it's really quite amazing.

Natural shells, natural biological materials.

We're done. You know, I've seen that island.

No mouth, no gut, no digestive system.

If there used to be a sea here, why aren't there any sea shells?

My family own half of Print Shop Boulevard. I want a lawyer

Large clams, and when we opened them, they didn't look like a clam.

So you can imagine a reality where the central bank of our island, all of a sudden, they find hundreds of seashells.

She sells seashells by the seashore.

I thought I'd talk a little bit about how nature makes materials.

What did you do that was so bad?

Hello? This is the Coquille d'Or, that's right.

How was your meal at the Coquille d'Or?

I'm making you another Seashell necklace.

Then she uses that seashell to buy a house.

Right now? I want to eat cockle! Cockle...

Marge is ill. Ate a funny whelk.

It depends on the strength of the flame, the pan used and the type of ingredients.

And maybe I'm the builder, and this guy's the fisherman, and she's the farmer.

What's it going to look like?

You have things like coral.

Put on a mask and believe

So if we had some way to stop this scaling and so I picked up some shells on the beach.

I found a beautiful shell on the shore.

What I have in my hand is a fossil seashell.

I picked up a pretty shell at the seaside.

She sells seashells by the seashore.

The program is full of good mood, coconut trees and clams.

French physiologist Raphael Dubois, asked about this bioluminescent clam.

Ken Knowlton does wonderful composite images, like creating Jacques Cousteau out of seashells un retouched seashells, but just by rearranging them.