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A calcium carbonate shell makes oyster larvae heavy enough for gravity to drive their feeding current
Houshuo Jiang filmed free-swimming eastern oyster larvae at 2,000 frames per second and found their shells make them dense enough that gravity, not the drag of swimming, drives the current that carries food to the mouth.
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