An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the ...

The deep-sea robot brought the shell up from the depths of 4,500 feet and to the surface where it could be examined further, according to the study. The new species of bivalve has ridges on the ...

The study was specimen-driven with the aim to include every rock-boring bivalve species. Collins, Edie, and Jablonski spent about a year collecting data from various museums and bringing it back to ...

An X-ray reconstruction of a 32-million-year-old fossil kelp holdfast colored to show the base (orange), holdfast (yellow) and the bivalve shell to which it attached (blue). The unique underwater ...

SAN DIEGO — County and state health officials are warning residents not to eat locally sport-harvested bivalve shellfish due to dangerous levels of domoic acid detected in mussels in the area.

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. Mussels mostly stay in one place ...