Imagine, if you would, that a clam was a church. Most of the walls are thick and opaque, protecting the animal’s soft insides ...

Senegal. The ribbed oval shells can reach 6 centimetres (2.4 in) across and are white, yellowish or brown in colour. The common cockle is harvested commercially ...

More information: Dakota E. McCoy et al, Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses, Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10 ...

Heart cockles, marine mollusks with heart-shaped shells, have evolved natural fiber optic systems. Their shell fibers channel ...

These seemingly healthy creatures include a clam-like mollusc called a heart cockle — the name coming from the shape of its shell. "These strange little clams are a little bit tougher than ...

Clams called Heart cockles, found in the warm, equatorial waters of the Indo-Pacific, have a mutually beneficial relationship ...

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When it comes to technologies used only by humans, you might think that fiber optics would rank right up there. Such is ...

A heart cockle shell has been found to let in light through a design that resembles fiber optic cables. This could inspire everything from helping... What a mollusc shell and fiber optic cables ...