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Rocks might not sound like a delectable meal to most life-forms, but it's on the menu for a newly identified species of a plump, bizarre-looking clam. However, though this clam consumes limestone, its ...

All the returns on long-range effects of radioactive fallout are by no means in (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.). and a report published by two Navy civilian scientists suggests the worrisome possibility that ...

Giant clams (Tridacna gigas), members of the family Tridacnidae and among the most striking inhabitants of tropical coral reefs, are being driven toward extinction. Over-harvesting for jewelry, the ...

Some critters have more star power than others. It helps to be cute like sea otters or monarch butterflies. Or gracefully dangerous like great white sharks and mountain lions. Or edible like abalone ...

The Atlantic surfclam, an economically valuable species that is the main ingredient in clam chowder and fried clam strips, has returned to Virginia waters in a big way, reversing a die-off that ...

LUBEC — Kyle Pepperman, executive director of the Downeast Institute, joined the Lubec Shellfish Committee this week to give a talk on clam biology and the process of seeding clam flats. The committee ...

Butter clams, important to many Alaskans’ diets, are notorious for being sources of the toxin that causes sometimes-deadly paralytic shellfish poisoning. Now a new study is providing information that ...

Researchers observed legal-sized Pismo clams returning after decades of absence. Clam population spikes trace back to strong recruitment pulses in 2014 and 2021. Scientists warn overharvesting could ...