The Atlantic cockle clam, a saltwater species commonly found in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, is one of the most ...

But as it turns out, one group of marine mollusks was way ahead of us. A new study reveals that clams called heart cockles -– so-named because of their heart-shaped shells -- have unique structures in ...

Giant clams, some of the largest mollusks on Earth ... maxima with closely related species—such as the common cockle—that lack symbiotic partners. The researchers found that T.

Cockles are sometimes called blood clams because the liquid that the raw (or lightly blanched) bivalves release when opened is dark red. They look similar to clams, except that cockle shells have ...