There's always a risk in consuming raw seafood including clams, but rest assured, you can take certain precautions and keep ...

Like oysters and mussels, clams are bivalves, a kind of mollusk that's encased in a shell made of two valves, or hinging parts. And that shell comes in all different sizes. There are small clams ...

The oyster or mussel slowly secretes layers of aragonite and conchiolin, materials that also make up its shell. This creates a material called nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl, which encases the ...

The mollusc collection is one of the largest in the Museum, with more than five million specimens. Our collection contains specimens belonging to the seven shell-bearing molluscan classes from across ...