A complete Cretaceous shellfish fossil. (University of Portsmouth) Nature has imbued its mothers with many surprisingly ...

When we think of great mothers of the animal kingdom, a few famous faces pop to mind. The incredible elephant matriarchs that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even bivalves looked different during the time of the dinosaurs, as these fossils of an ultra-fortified oyster, left, and armored ...

Stewart Edie, curator of fossil bivalves at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. In a new study, Edie, Shan Huang of the University of Birmingham and colleagues drastically expanded ...

Researchers at the Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa in southern Brazil have identified a previously unknown species of ancient marine bivalve from a fossil roughly 400 million years old, adding a ...

A new study examined how bivalves -- the group that includes clams, mussels, scallops, and oysters -- evolved among many others in the period of rapid evolution known as the Cambrian Explosion. The ...