gigas), is the most well-known species of giant clam. Often admired for their striking colors and impressive size, they are the largest marine bivalve mollusks in the world, capable of growing up to 4 ...

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

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

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

Unlike clams, the heart cockle doesn't need to open wide to bask in the sun. It has a clever trick up its shell: tiny, ...

They caused many other problems as well. Bivalve mollusk expert Maria Cristina Dreher Mansur told Science in 2021 that golden mussels had "transformed" Lake Guaíba, near the southern Brazilian city of ...

Nacre can form naturally around almost any irritant that gets inside the shell, creating some very unique and precious pearls. Other bivalve molluscs and gastropods can produce pearls, but these ...

Shellfish — specifically, bivalves like clams, oysters, mussels and scallops — are nutrition-packed and an environmental success story. Sustainable farming of these mollusks has boomed ...

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 ...

Among the millions of bivalve molluscs in the Museum's collections, one specimen stands out: a large oyster shell, donated to the Museum in 1886 and containing a peculiar pearl. Rather than a ...

But most UK waters are not in that category. The UK government previously said it thought the restrictions on exports of bivalve molluscs - such as mussels, clams, cockles, scallops and oysters ...

Our lab mainly uses diverse mollusk groups (clams, cockles ... Multiple losses of planktontrophic larval development in the cosmopolitan marine bivalve genus Lasaea. American Malacological Bulletin 33 ...