Don't think you're a clam person? Consider the cockle. The pint-sized bivalve is 100 percent sweet, tender meat with none of the overwhelming brininess that turns people off from other shellfish. Even ...

Since the dawn of human civilization, much has been written about the sheer adrenaline-pumping excitement of clams, scallops, cockles, but today’s digital age has cranked-up that heart-pounding thrill ...

A couple of weeks ago, I heard the ocean calling, and my heart stirred. At 7:30 a.m. May 6, there was a -1.3 low tide, and the clam and cockle beds in Tillamook Bay at Garibaldi would be exposed. I ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida State University researchers, along with an international team of scientists, have put together the most complete look to date of the evolutionary family tree of cardiid ...

A heart-shaped mollusc has evolved tiny windows that work like fibre-optic cables, the first known example in nature. Heart cockles (Corculum cardissa) are bivalve molluscs a bit like clams that have ...

SLURPING OYSTERS from their shells may be a rare indulgence for humans, but these bivalve molluscs and their relatives, such as clams and mussels, slurp for a living. Most are filter feeders, ...