In the deep waters of the South China Sea, a new species was discovered near a cold seep thousands of feet deep. Marko Blazevic via Unsplash As you get closer to the bottom of the ocean, it gets ...

In a mangrove forest on the coast of Brazil, a new species was found clinging to the tangled roots. N Scot via Unsplash On coastlines and in estuaries around the globe, mangroves face rising sea ...

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 ...

I had never seen a conference of seashells before, but there it was, plain as anything, just before the sun descended on a Wednesday evening last June. Six scalloped, bivalve shells consorted ...

A new paleontology study by UChicago researchers discovered that rock-boring clams, known as bivalves, vary in shape despite performing the same function. This paper is one of the first major studies ...

As understanding has grown of how seriously ocean ecosystems have been degraded by extractive fisheries and as many fisheries have proven unsustainable, attention has turned to mariculture, including ...

A new study reveals that there are many ways bivalves bore through solid rock, but a lack of habitat may lock them into an evolutionary dead end. Despite their name, boring bivalves are much more ...