Native oysters in North America occur from Atlantic Canada down the East Coast of the U.S. into the Gulf of Mexico. They have ...

Over a bivalve’s life, its shells can open and shut hundreds of thousands of times, seemingly without taking damage. ... They found that the bivalve’s hinge consists of two key parts.

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 ...

The bivalves can do this despite having relatively soft shells made of calcium carbonate, the same material as limestone. To penetrate rocks such as granite and andesite, which are much harder than ...