Hold up, Pasco County scallopers. Your season has been paused, for now. Officials with the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission announced Wednesday that the agency was temporarily shutting ...

Scallops are generally considered sedentary organisms, meaning that they do not move around much. However, this very still lifestyle changes when a scallop is disturbed by a predator. This disturbance ...

Scallops leap in zigzag flights by forcefully opening their valves and expelling jets of water, which drive the mollusk in yard-long hops to avoid capture. The large muscle of the scallop, called an ...