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

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.

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

Because filter-feeding bivalves and mollusks take all their nutrients from filtering seawater, they are an excellent choice for a sustainable form of aquaculture that is helping to take pressure ...

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 ...

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

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 ...