Heart cockles have windows in their shells made from natural optical fibers, allowing light through to the algae inside them.

BBC Newsreel featured captured cockle-collectors collecting, carrying, cleaning and cooking cockles at Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. Originally broadcast 21 June 1948 1948: Cockle collecting at Leigh-on-Sea.

PRODUCTION of cockle seeds in Sabak Bernam dropped from 555,048 in 2019 to zero in 2023. This was revealed by Mohd Razali ...

It seems to take more to get them to bleach. So that's kind of a weird biological mystery." These seemingly healthy creatures include a clam-like mollusc called a heart cockle — the name coming from ...

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 ...

Former marine Ben Mason, from Christchurch, joined the 10-man Cockleshell 22 team that has spent the past four days retracing the journey of Operation Frankton. He was following in the footsteps ...

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 ...

“I observed how the water, particularly from the Sungai Buloh river, flows into the sea ... “These dead shells need to be removed.” He said illegal cockle harvesting often took place ...