Gulf oysters tainted with heavy metals from oil spill » 42805_web

Caption: Oyster shells like this one, collected from the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, have been shown to contain higher concentrations of three heavy metals common in crude oil -- vanadium, cobalt, and chromium -- than specimens collected before the spill. Credit: California Academy of Sciences

Caption: Oyster shells like this one, collected from the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, have been shown to contain higher concentrations of three heavy metals common in crude oil — vanadium, cobalt, and chromium — than specimens collected before the spill.

Credit: California Academy of Sciences

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