Parts of the mussel shell were first mounted in epoxy, then ground and polished for EBSD analysis, and finally finished with 5 minutes of colloidal silica polishing. Approximately ~ 5 nm of carbon was ...

Bivalves belonging to the subfamily Tridacnidae (the so-called ‘giant clams’) play an important ecological ... Microscopy (CLSM), and Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) to examine shell growth, ...

Scientists say that a series of marks carved onto a freshwater clam shell represent the earliest known engravings made by a human ancestor. The zigzag lines visible in the photo above probably ...

The Philippines is shell-ebrating after it seized more than 150 tons of fossilized giant clams Friday worth nearly $25 million. As part of a joint operation, the Philippine coast guard found the ...

But Hensel isn’t looking for living bivalves—she’s searching the mudflat for the shells of dead clams. “I did lose a boot or two,” she recalls. “You can get sunk into it pretty deep.” ...

Q. Are clams and oysters still alive when we eat them raw on the half shell? A. It’s only natural to be squeamish about chomping on a creature so recently forcibly demoted from bivalve to ...

Grinding their boat propellers against coral in the South China Sea, they excised the shells, leaving half-moon scars and broken reefs in their wake. Even when giant clams became rarer and harder ...