Identifying the cause of fish kills can be challenging, but a Western Australian researcher is using bivalves as spies to provide early intel ahead of such events. Murdoch University research fellow ...

Bivalvia (= Lamellibranchia, Pelecypoda) is a group of great living and fossil diversity, and one of immense economic importance. At the start of this grant project, there were few biologists ...

Picture an environmentally friendly food. Your mind might turn to the humble lentil, but is it possible to eat more luxuriously while still staying green? Bivalves such as oysters, mussels, clams and ...

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On July 12, 2025, Dress to Impress added the Seashell Crown to the DTI Summer Update. To get it, you must find three hidden seashells and take them to a secret, hidden room. This guide walks you ...

Summertime is seafood time, and oysters shout yum to so many people. Everyone is looking for “buck a shuck” and enjoying oysters on the half shell. So, what is an oyster? Around here, the American ...

Stewart Edie receives funding from the Smithsonian Institution. Even groups that weathered the catastrophe, such as mammals, fishes and flowering plants, suffered severe population declines and ...

Quahogs, known elsewhere as hard-shell clams, are a key part of Rhode Island's culture and economy. The name "quahog" comes from the Narragansett word "poquauhock," and different sizes of quahogs have ...

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It's not uncommon to find the fossil imprints of seashells in the rocks lining streambeds here in upstate New York. Today we're looking deeper into this natural phenomenon and in the process ...