Cockscomb pearl mussels, the study’s starring bivalves, are found in fresh waters across northeast Asia. Ancient Chinese craftspeople grew pearls within this mussel’s shells.

What you do need to worry about, he said, is a raw bivalve that has opened up and won’t close when you tap the shell. That one’s a goner. Croxton says a raw oyster should be meaty and plump.

However, the diversity of bivalve shells posed a challenge, and researchers tried many approaches before landing on a successful mathematical method. Researchers realized that because these bivalves ...

A video taken during a dive in Lembeh Strait, Indonesia, shows an aggressive coconut octopus walking across the ocean floor with the bivalve shell it uses for protection and lurching at the person ...

Bivalve shells have emerged as invaluable archives of past environmental conditions. Their annual and sub‐annual growth increments record precise temporal variations that, when coupled with ...

For centuries, biologists have collected, drawn, measured and compared the shells of bivalve species, pursuing knowledge about how the environment and behavior shape biodiversity. Now, University of ...

Bivalve and its neighboring area Shell Pile are, in fact, largely unknown communities at the very southern tip of our state. But, that anonymity outside that corner of New Jersey may be short lived.