To be fair, they were. The part of scallops that we eat is actually a mollusk's adductor muscle, which they use to open and close their shells in order to swim. But they aren't meant to maintain ...

Scallops caught using illuminated crab pots, dubbed "scallop discos", are now being served in restaurants under the term ...

Confirming Purcell’s Scallop theorem, the nanobot did not move ... they hope it will aid future researchers in designing nanobots that can swim through blood vessels and body fluids.

the scallops we eat and love are bivalve mollusks, and are actually adductor muscles, joining together both halves of the sea creatures' shells and allowing them to literally swim underwater.