An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the impacts of this ancient event, scientists hope to ensure that mussels ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 million years ago. Ancient fossils recorded it all.

Team finds that the bivalve mollusk Anadara kagoshimensis can endure high water salinity by Scientific Project Lomonosov Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain ...

‘Instead, it really seems like early bivalves were late to the party, bringing a cheap bottle of wine and hanging out in the kitchen until it was over. They accumulated new bivalve species gradually ...

Is eating shellfish healthy for the planet? Aquaculture of oysters, clams and other bivalves has doubled over the last two decades, pushing out more destructive fishing methods. Around 90 percent ...

Despite their name, boring bivalves are much more exciting than their non-boring relatives. From giant clams such as Tridacna crocea to small scallops, rock boring bivalves encompass a range of sizes ...

Inspired by the hinge of bivalve Cristaria plicata, which experiences hundreds of thousands of repeating opening-and-closing valve motions throughout the bivalve’s lifetime, a research team led ...

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 ...

A new species of bivalve, shelled creature, was found in the deep trenches of the South China Sea near cold seep where chemicals enter water ...

A new study examined how bivalves -- the group that includes clams, mussels, scallops, and oysters -- evolved among many others in the period of rapid evolution known as the Cambrian Explosion ...

The researchers were surprised to see how rock boring bivalves are diverse in shapes and sizes. A new paleontology study by UChicago researchers discovered that rock-boring clams, known as bivalves, ...