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 ...

Bivalve shells have emerged as invaluable archives of past environmental conditions. Their annual and sub‐annual growth increments record precise temporal variations that, when coupled with stable ...

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 ...

Left, Devonian brachiopod fossils from Ohio, USA. Credit: ‘Daderot’ (Wikimedia Commons; Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication). Right, recent bivalve shells from shell beach, ...

Bivalves, such as clams, oysters and mussels, record seasonal environmental changes in their shells, making them living chronicles of climate history. A new study of bivalve shells has detected two ...

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 ...

Taphonomic signatures on modern bivalve shells, such as traces of drilling organisms, encrusters, fragmentation, and abrasion function as indicators of environmental differences on Belize atoll reefs.

Shell growth and morphogenesis were studied in nine species of Bivalvia from the viewpoint of theoretical morphology. The aperture map, or pattern of relative rate of shell accretion for each point ...