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

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Wood-boring bivalves in the deep sea could then be used to identify rare wood resources that had taken a long time to make it to the seafloor, according to the study. Read Next .

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 ...