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Molluscan Explosion: The Dutch Shipworm Epidemic of the 1730s
An invasive mollusk called the shipworm (Teredo navalis) attacked coastal dikes in the Netherlands in the 1730s, leading to changes in the design of dikes.
An invasive mollusk called the shipworm (Teredo navalis) attacked coastal dikes in the Netherlands in the 1730s, leading to changes in the design of dikes.
In 1966, a stray beluga whale swimming up and down the polluted Lower Rhine caught the media’s attention in West Germany.
American equines shipped to the South African War suffered conditions like those on slave ships in the transatlantic slave trade.