Archive for the 'Bivalves' Category
Well, it is important to mention that not all mussels are found on pilings. Mussels attach themselves to any type of hard substrate in the intertidal regions, including pilings. On pilings the top most mussels indicate the high tide line.
To go off on a random tangent, here is a yummy mussel recipe: http://allrecipes.com/HowTo/Cooking-Mussels/Detail.aspx
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Truly, by accident.
Oysters are a bivalve animal, and therefore, live among a sandwich of two oyster shells. The part of the animal that creates the outer shell is called the mantle. The substance that the mantle creates is called narce and lines the inside of the shell. It is what creates that smooth, pretty surface [...]
The shell with a hole through it, actually, used to be hinged to another shell of equal size – with the animal living inside (think, clam or oyster). These animals with two shells hinged together are called bivalves. Often, in restaurants they are shucked apart and served “on-the-half-shell.”
However, animals in the ocean do [...]
These tiny colorful clams are juvenile versions of the clams that will eventually grow up to live in the big shells you might paint or use as a digging tool.
Did you see them wriggle under the sand? They use a muscled foot to dig a burrow and hide from their enemies: crabs, sea stars, [...]
