Invasive bivalve species, notably within the Dreissenidae and Mytilidae families, have emerged as significant agents of ecological change in both estuarine and coastal ecosystems. These organisms, ...

Scientists have drastically expanded the list of bivalve species, such as clams, oysters, mussels, scallops and their relatives, that humans are known to harvest and identified the traits that make ...

Clams stick in the mud while mussels attach to rocks. While clams and squid are like cousins, clams and mussels are more like siblings. They may both belong to the Mollusca phylum and the Bivalvia ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Deep under the surface of the South China Sea, a new species waits buried in the sand. Matt Hardy via Unsplash More than 4,000 feet below the ocean’s surface, a crack in the seafloor spews gases into ...

Thousands of feet deep, pieces of wood once on the surface settle onto the ocean floor of the north Atlantic. Destined to break down and return its material to the earth, sunken wood offers a unique ...

In a new study, scientists Stewart Edie of the Smithsonian, Shan Huang of the University of Birmingham and colleagues drastically expanded the list of bivalve species, such as clams, oysters, mussels, ...

Human-harvested shellfish from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History research collections. (Credit: Brittany M. Hance and James D. Tiller, Smithsonian) Photos illustrating this research ...