New York: Dead shells and stone plated shells at the US Pacific Northwest.
The star of the marine is roasted to death.
The extraordinary heat combination and drought that hit the West and Canada for the past two weeks have killed hundreds of millions of marine animals and continues to threaten countless species in freshwater, according to the initial estimates and interviews with scientists.
“It feels like one of the postapocalyptic films,” said Christopher Harley, a marine biologist.
To calculate the death toll, Harley saw how many blue shells that lived in certain coastlines, how many areas were good habitat for shellfish and shellfaction which he observed died.
He estimated losses to shells on hundreds of millions.
Factoring in other creatures living in shells and beaches on the beach – Barnacles, hermit crabs and other crustaceans, worms – puts death easily more than 1 billion, he said.