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.

Ming is considered the oldest living non-colonial animal ever. She was discovered at 507 years old, according to 2013 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

The type collection is the most scientifically important of its kind. The non-marine (terrestrial and freshwater) gastropod and bivalve molluscs collections are the most geographically diverse and ...

Bivalves are invertebrate animals that belong to a group known as molluscs. They have a shell that’s made up of two halves, known as valves, which are joined by a hinge. Bivalves will usually clamp ...

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 ...

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 ...

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