Lioconcha hieroglyphica is a species of saltwater clam, it has brown angular markings, often with the appearance of cuneiform characters from ancient scripts, or hieroglyphs.
@sciencegirl #globalmuseum #shells #clams #ecology
#Clams
Cross-barred Venus (Chione elevata)
#Clam #SeaLife #ArtWithOpenSource #CCBYSA #Darktable #MarineLife #Shell #Clams #Bivalvia #Bivalve #Bivalves #Mollusca #Molluscs #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
#Life on our planet was simply a "school project" by an alien elementary #school class, with the goal: "Now, just go ahead and build something with your #construction kit..."
The result:
#Insects 🪲
#Arachnids
#Reptiles 🦖
#Sea urchins
#Fish 🐟
#Clams
#Snails 🐌
The winners, by the way, were the impressive #dinosaurs - who would have guessed?
Everyone laughed at the #mammals: Haha, live-bearing, what's the point? That'll never catch on - Haha!
RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@dantheclamman/115805644502343084
listen #year2026 ☝️
"We don't have data on how often you thanked #clams, but it wouldn't hurt to do it more next year."
Broad-ribbed Cardita (Cardites floridanus)
#Clam #SeaLife #ArtWithOpenSource #CCBYSA #Darktable #MarineLife #Shell #Clams #Bivalvia #Bivalve #Bivalves #Mollusca #Molluscs #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
Atlantic Kitten's Paw (Plicatula gibbosa)
#SeaLife #ArtWithOpenSource #CCBYSA #Darktable #MarineLife #Shell #Clam #Clams #Bivalvia #Bivalve #Bivalves #Mollusca #Molluscs #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
Turkey Wing Ark Clam (Arca zebra)
#ArkClam #SeaLife #ArtWithOpenSource #CCBYSA #Darktable #MarineLife #Shell #Clam #Clams #Bivalvia #Bivalve #Bivalves #Mollusca #Molluscs #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
Ponderous Ark (Noetia ponderosa)
#Clam #SeaLife #ArtWithOpenSource #CCBYSA #Darktable #MarineLife #Shell #Clams #Bivalvia #Bivalve #Bivalves #Mollusca #Molluscs #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
"Our modelling estimates the clams are forming up to 30 tonnes of calcium carbonate daily in Lake Karāpiro alone.
[...]
The result? Impaired arsenic removal. Without stable calcium, flocs (clumps of particles) don’t form properly, letting arsenic slip through."
"The shipworms are many things at once. They have carried different names — from maritime menace to indigenous delicacy to scientific marvel — yet none alone captures their multitude."
Crystal Chow for The Contrapuntal: https://thecontrapuntal.com/are-these-clams-key-to-climate-adaptation
#Longreads #ClimateChange #Clams #MarineLife #Philippines #Science #Mangroves #Research #Seafood
We managed to sneak in a dive between some messy early week weather and an upcoming nor'easter. Check the alt text for critter descriptions!
#UnderwaterPhotography #ScubaPhotography #UWPhoto #DivingLife #ScubaDiving #DiveLife #ScubaShooters #fish #lobsters #clams #macro #olympus 🦑 📷
Concurring with The Onion: There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn from Clams
Screencap of Onion where some sort of scientist is announcing something in front of a Powerpoint slide of a clamLast week, The Onion, a very serious journalistic publication, published a piece “Biologists Announce There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn From Clams“. As a print subscriber I want to say I played a small part in this article, which I’ve actually hung on my office wall. But I want to take it a step further and write a line-by-line concurrence with everything they wrote!
WOODS HOLE, MA—Saying they saw no conceivable reason to bother with the bivalve mollusks, biologists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announced Thursday that there was absolutely nothing to be learned from clams.
Wow, I do know a researcher who studies clams at Woods Hole and actually love her work! Nina Whitney is now a prof at Western Washington University but until recently was a postdoc at WHOI studying how shells can serve as records of climate! I wonder who The Onion interviewed.
“Our studies have found that while some of their shells look pretty cool, clams really don’t have anything to teach us,” said the organization’s chief scientist, Francis Dawkins, clarifying that it wasn’t simply the case that researchers had already learned everything they could from clams, but rather that there had never been anything to learn from them and never would be.
Oh I don’t know a Francis Dawkins, but I’m sure they know their clams! It is true that their shells can look pretty cool. Bivalves include everything from Hysteroconcha dione, with its beautiful color and spines, to Tridacna gigas, which grows to 4.5 feet and weighs hundreds of pounds! And like an Onion, shells have growth layers, sometimes a new one every day, which someone could use to try to figure out how clams record what they eat and how the environment changes. But why would anyone do that?
Close-up view of a Hysteroconcha bivalve shell, showcasing its intricate ridges and coloration, and rows of long spines near the margin. SourceFor me, I guess I haven’t learned anything from clams. I think I already knew in my heart that clams can live for >500 years. I already knew that mussels can filter several liters of water per hour, meaning that a colony of them can filter thousands of liters an hour. All this stuff is obvious, actually. Common sense.
“We certainly can’t teach them anything. It’s not like you can train them to run through a maze the way you would with mice. We’ve tried, and they pretty much just lie there.
It is ludicrous that clams could be taught anything or have anything approaching memory or thinking. It is only coincidence that scallops appear to clap their valves to swim, using their hundreds of eyes to navigate to a new location away from predators or toward food. It’s coincidence that they increase their feeding activity when shown a video of food particles. Some researchers have even claimed that giant clams can tell the difference between different shapes of objects! It is so dumb!
From what I’ve observed, they have a lot more in common with rocks than they do with us. They’re technically alive, I guess, if you want to call that living.
Also literally true! Their shell is a biomineral, in essence a living rock, made of calcium carbonate. They are alive in the sense they have a heart that beats, pushing hemolymph around their body. Their heart rate can increase or decrease with different stressors. Remember though, we always knew this. We didn’t learn it through something like science.
They open and close sometimes, but, I mean, so does a wallet. If you’ve used a wallet, you know more or less all there is to know about clams. Pretty boring.”
I myself have wasted time studying this. I attached sensors to giant clams to monitor their feeding activity. If I had learned anything, it might have been that they change their behavior between day and night, basking in the sun to help their photosynthetic algae in the day, and partially closing at night, with those behaviors changing based on how much chlorophyll is in the water. But remember! I didn’t learn it.
The finding follows a study conducted by marine biologists last summer that concluded clams don’t have much flavor, either, tasting pretty much the same as everything else on a fried seafood platter.
I can’t see how anyone would like to eat a bivalve. Especially not a fresh-caught scallop sauteed in butter or a plate of fried clams in New England. Never try that. Leave it to me!
#Biology #bivalves #clams #humor #invertebrates #marineBiology #oceans #satire #science #TheOnion
Scientists studied records of quahog #clams (which can live for over 500 years) and dog cockles – because shell layers provide an annual record of #ocean conditions.
#Ecology #Environmental #ClimateChange #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/10/eco10062501.html
"Giant Clam Girl" featured in Nature! 🙂
"[Neo Mei Lin] I work as an ecologist at the St John’s Island National Marine Laboratory, which is sited on a small island off the coast of mainland Singapore."
The food we had at the Oyster Club. Our appetizer were these clams which I unfortunately chipped a tooth while eating, there was a bit of grit that I wasn't anticipating! As for our dinners, well... my wife got a piece of steak, and I got their burger. I considered getting a seafood dish for my main, but when I saw red onion jam as an option, I couldn't say no lol.
#MysticConnecticut #MysticCT #Connecticut #ConnecticutPhotography #travels #travelphotography #travelphotos #ShotoniPhone #Photodaily #Photography #Pixelfed #dining #restaurants #food #foodporn #foodphoto #culinarytravels #ThrowbackThursday #TBT #OysterClub #clams #seafood #steak
#MysticConnecticut #MysticCT #Connecticut #ConnecticutPhotography #travels #travelphotography #travelphotos #ShotoniPhone #Photodaily #Photography #Pixelfed #dining #restaurants #food #foodporn #foodphoto #culinarytravels #ThrowbackThursday #TBT #OysterClub #clams #seafood #steak
Frutti di mare, as they say in Palermo. In New Jersey, they call it gifts of Barnegat Bay. Or, spaghetti alle vongole in bianco in this situation.
Thanks to our summer clamming trips, my freezer always has a few one pound bags with finely diced clam meat and gallons of clam juice stored in 16 oz water bottles. To make this dish I basically have to make sure there are pasta, garlic, olive oil, and parsley on hand.
I start with two 4 qt pots side by side. One with salted water for pasta and another one for the sauce.
In the sauce pot, I sauté on low 6 cloves of crushed garlic in 3/4 cup of olive oil until the garlic just turns blonde — about 5 min. Then I add half a cup of chopped parsley, a teaspoon of dried oregano, hot pepper seeds, a bottle of clam juice, and a bag of clam meat. About ten minutes covered is enough for all these parts to come into a sauce.
If there are some actual clams on hand, they go into the sauce at this point, to just open up. Then they wait on a plate until everything else is ready.
With pasta, I keep it in boiling salted water just a few minutes, only until it becomes pliable, and move it straight into the sauce.
Once pasta absorbs all the sauce liquid, I try it for the texture. It is usually not done.
Keeping the flame high, I add pasta cooking water — ladle by ladle — and stir the pasta in it until all liquid gets absorbed. It takes about five or six ladles to get pasta to a good al dente.
The briny saltiness of spaghetti strands that absorbed the clam juice is hard to beat. We cleaned the plates in silence.
#food #cooking #spaghetti #vongole #pasta #fruttidimare #clams
Thanks to our summer clamming trips, my freezer always has a few one pound bags with finely diced clam meat and gallons of clam juice stored in 16 oz water bottles. To make this dish I basically have to make sure there are pasta, garlic, olive oil, and parsley on hand.
I start with two 4 qt pots side by side. One with salted water for pasta and another one for the sauce.
In the sauce pot, I sauté on low 6 cloves of crushed garlic in 3/4 cup of olive oil until the garlic just turns blonde — about 5 min. Then I add half a cup of chopped parsley, a teaspoon of dried oregano, hot pepper seeds, a bottle of clam juice, and a bag of clam meat. About ten minutes covered is enough for all these parts to come into a sauce.
If there are some actual clams on hand, they go into the sauce at this point, to just open up. Then they wait on a plate until everything else is ready.
With pasta, I keep it in boiling salted water just a few minutes, only until it becomes pliable, and move it straight into the sauce.
Once pasta absorbs all the sauce liquid, I try it for the texture. It is usually not done.
Keeping the flame high, I add pasta cooking water — ladle by ladle — and stir the pasta in it until all liquid gets absorbed. It takes about five or six ladles to get pasta to a good al dente.
The briny saltiness of spaghetti strands that absorbed the clam juice is hard to beat. We cleaned the plates in silence.
#food #cooking #spaghetti #vongole #pasta #fruttidimare #clams
Mini geek out moment.
I have ensure there's at least one chili seed in every dip scoop. It's been a lifelong #autism related personal food trait.
#seafood #clams #shellfish #AsianMastodon #nuoccham #Vietnamese #food #OCD #ASD #ActuallyAutistic
Fields of #worms and snowy microbial mats: #DeepSea submersible discovers flourishing ecosystem https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/deep-sea-creatures-discovery-hadal-trench-submersible-rcna222158
"There were dense beds of #clams, each up to 9 inches long, and snow-like #MicrobialMats creating an ethereal undersea dusting, dozens of feet wide. This is the first time #chemosynthesis-based communities directly observed at extreme depths... Long-standing theories suggest that chemosynthesis-based communities are widespread in hadal trenches, but few have been discovered"
Client Info
Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.07
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst