BOSTON---Collecting pretty seashells is more than a vacation pastime for scientists from the University of Michigan and Ohio State University, whose analyses of scallop shells are filling gaps in ...

TOKYO >> Hills of white scallop shells were piling up in Yubetsu, a town facing the Sea of Okhotsk in Hokkaido. They looked like out-of-season snow mounds. The shells blanketed every free space on a ...

With scallop season is underway in Citrus and Hernando Counties, a group in Homosassa is encouraging scallopers not to dump the shells in the river, saying it's harmful. However, some locals don't ...

Most seashells come from mollusks, a large group of marine animals, including clams, snails and oysters, which make shells as a protective covering. These shells are created from the outer surface of ...

Much of the scallop farming techniques used in the U.S. derive from practices in Japan, where scallops have long been a part of the country’s seafood industry. Researchers from the University of Maine ...