Not all bivalves are created equal. Oysters and clams are both bivalves—animals with two connected shells—but they have more differences than similarities. While the differences may not be obvious at ...

An unusual new study shows that while terrestrial birds and marine bivalves -- animals such as scallops, mussels, cockles, and oysters -- share a common pattern of species richness across latitudes, ...

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

As the total worldwide fisheries yield from exploitation of wild stocks has declined, the production from mariculture, defined as the cultivation of organisms in their natural marine environment, has ...

Bivalves have been touted as a food of the future – but wild populations might not last that long. New research has revealed the areas of the world where demand for the molluscs is highest, allowing ...

Molecular phylogenetics and systematics have transformed our understanding of bivalve evolution, replacing reliance on shell morphology with DNA-based inference of relationships. By comparing ...

Oct. 13 (UPI) --Scientists have measured the amounts of greenhouse gas released by worms and clams in the Baltic Sea and the results are surprising. Researchers estimate polychaetes and bivalves ...

Marine and terrestrial species inhabit vastly different ecosystems, but they share one of the primary patterns of biodiversity on the planet. The numbers of species of both groups increase toward the ...