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 ...

At the start of this grant project, there were few biologists specializing in investigating bivalve diversity and the largest (and ecologically as well as economically most important) bivalves were ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 ...

Survival of the fittest is expertly exemplified by one marine creature: Minnesota’s freshwater mussels. These shellfish are ...

Contrary to what has been previously argued, oysters and other bivalve molluscs are not blue carbon sinks. In fact, the process of calcification, which allows oysters to form their shells, actually ...

An ancient fossil of a pearly but tough trigoniid bivalve from the last mass extinction. The two matching shells show their elaborate hinge. (Image credit: Smithsonian Institution) But despite ...

Crustacean shells are currently viewed as food waste. These shells are rich in valuable natural compounds, most notably chitin, proteins, amino acids, and carotenoid pigments, (1−4) along with the ...

Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere peaked above 430 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in May, scientists with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the U.S. National Oceanic and ...