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Bivalves

Pearl meat is the ear-shaped adductor muscle in a pearl oyster.

How Pearl Meat Became Australia's Newest Luxury Ingredient

Once humble divers' fare, the meat of the pearl oyster now commands up to $200 per kilo.

Lizzie Pook June 24, 2022

The newly found oyster (left) is a much bigger bivalve than the ones that often surface in New York's waters.

New York's Insatiable Appetite for Truly Enormous Oysters

A massive mollusk recently found in the Hudson River is the latest example of two centuries of appreciating behemoth bivalves.

Jessica Leigh Hester August 1, 2018

Geoduck

This phallic, giant clam is the culinary crown jewel of the Pacific Northwest.

Straight out of Bluff, New Zealand.

Bluff Oysters

The rarest oysters come from the bottom of the sea at the end of the earth.

People say fresh tamilok tastes even better than a raw oyster.

Tamilok

In the Philippines, the worm is your oyster.