While surveying the frosty waters of the North Atlantic, a team of NOAA scientists recently uncovered a heart-shaped sea scallop. A small dent in the top makes the sea creature look like the symbol of love instead of the sea scallop’s typical fan shape. “Strong currents can toss scallops around, causing them to hit rocks or other scallops,” NOAA wrote in a Facebook post. The crew of the New Bedford-based scallop fishing vessel the F/V Selje pulled up the heart shaped mollusk during their annual Atlantic Sea Scallop Dredge Survey. The data from these annual reviews are used in Atlantic sea scallop stock assessments and help inform the catch limits for the commercial scallop fishery.