A clam shell may be a familiar find on the beach, but its intricate curves and markings tell a rich tale. For centuries, biologists have collected, drawn, measured and compared the shells of bivalve ...

Also known as edible mussels, these creatures live in a blue-black bivalve shell. The mussel itself is tan-colored and full of protein, vitamins, and minerals.

A video taken during a dive in Lembeh Strait, Indonesia, shows an aggressive coconut octopus walking across the ocean floor with the bivalve shell it uses for protection and lurching at the person ...

The proportion of bivalve shells with drill holes in fossil assemblages is commonly used as a measure of the intensity of predation by drilling gastropods. Previous studies have assumed that drilled ...

Disease, overharvesting, and pollution have impaired the role of bivalves on coastal ecosystems, some to the point of functional extinction. An underappreciated function of many bivalves in these ...