15 Nov 2026, 01:00 PM

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Scientists succeed in breeding wild oysters in Dornoch Firth, near Inverness, from where they disappeared more than 100 years agoThe baby oysters, with their rough cream-coloured shells and ragged edges, are about the size of a 50 pence piece. But off the north-east coast of Scotland, they are proof of a breakthrough in marine conservation.For the first time in the UK, scientists have succeeded in breeding wild oysters at a site where they had been locally extinct for more than a century, in the Dornoch Firth north of Inverness. Continue reading...

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