The ocean is a wild habitat where any keen beachgoer could spy a myriad of marine life that comes covered in shells or swims ...

Bivalves are some of the most diverse marine animals alive today—but even they're not safe from extinction. Clams, mussels and oysters are just some of the many different types of these shelled ...

The bivalves appear to have been left behind in history’s biggest ever burst of evolution.. Over 500 million years ago, the Cambrian explosion was a period of time when most of the major groups of ...

Invasive mussels cause billions of dollars in damage to water infrastructure annually and threaten aquatic ecosystems.

A new species of bivalve was discovered near a cold seep in the South China Sea at the same location other new species were also found ...

Aquaculture has made it possible to eat mussels at any time, but fall is the perfect time to indulge since mussels reach maturation later in the year. Here’s how to prep and cook them at home.

Citation: “Cambrian origin but no early burst in functional disparity for Class Bivalvia.” Zhou and Edie et al, Biology Letters of the Royal Society of London, May 31, 2023. Funding: National Science ...

Focusing on the past to protect the future. To investigate, the researchers examined nearly 2,000 genera of bivalves from before and after the Cretaceous mass extinction, as well as today.