An unappreciated group of filter-feeding animals found around our coastlines could clean up our waters and nourish a billion people. Is it time we championed bivalves? Simmering in pots around the ...

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 ...

Bivalve mollusks exhibit a strikingly diverse range of lifespans, spanning from just one year to over five centuries. This exceptional lifespan disparity makes bivalves an excellent model system to ...

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, ...

Recently, flexible and foldable devices have developed at a dramatic rate. More and more foldable devices appear in people's lives. Long-term service requires the folded parts to endure repeated ...

The early evolution of clams, oysters and scallops have been revealed in a new study. While there are thousands of bivalve species alive today, the group was slow to evolve new members while other ...

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 ...