An animal's shell is subjected to stress throughout its life, and residual stress can be released and measured as strain. The shape and texture of the shell are advantageous features of design.

When pearls are cultured commercially an irritant is manually inserted into a mollusc to promote the production of mother-of-pearl. Nacre can form naturally around almost any irritant that gets inside ...

Tiny, solid windows in the shells of heart cockles let in light for the photosynthetic algae inside them – and they could ...

A now-dead clam nicknamed “Ming” is the oldest living individual animal ever found at 507 years old.

Watch Andreia Salvador, Curator of Marine Mollusca, take a look at one of the Museum's most extraordinary and precious pearls. Among the millions of bivalve molluscs in the Museum's collections, one ...

These hinge shelled molluscs have quietly embraced the lower ... may need to make these shellfish a larger part of our diet. “Bivalves have the remarkable potential to provide people with ...

DESCRIPTION: Freshwater mussels are bivalve mollusks that have a two- valved hard shell, a soft body with respiratory, digestive and reproductive organs, and a muscular foot for locomotion, burrowing ...

A team of marine biologists, ecologists and evolutionary specialists from the University of Chicago, Stanford University and ...

The average remis hunter can collect up to 15 kilogrammes (kg) of this shellfish, also known as bivalve mollusks, within a ...