As clams do, once placed back in the water they will naturally burrow into the sand ...

Silencing the FECH gene in dwarf surf clams reduced heme, raised protoporphyrin IX, and turned their white shells ...

Environmental restoration sometimes requires out-of-the-box thinking. Along the waters of Long Island Sound in New York and Connecticut, experts are tackling the challenge of restoring crucial ...

Xuetao Li thrusts a metal cylinder into the creek’s squishy bottom and wriggles it until he’s satisfied it can go no deeper. A moment later, the doctoral student at Morgan ...

Most people think of clams as a gooey blob inside of a two-piece shell, but there’s actually a lot more going on inside that shell that you might come to expect. While it’s true that a clam is rather ...

The giant clam, the world's largest bivalve, can reach nearly 4 feet, weigh more than 440 pounds and live for over a century.

Conservationists say giant clam shells are used as an alternative material for products ranging from earrings to chandeliers as ivory becomes scarce Philippine coast Guard (PCG) / Handout Philippine ...

The tiny, pale surf clam about the size of a fingernail that most people have seen and collected on beaches around the world holds clues in its shell to Earth's past. For the first time, researchers ...

This article was originally published by Hakai Magazine. It’s low tide in Bodega Bay, north of San Francisco, and Hannah Hensel is squishing through thick mud on the hunt for clams. The hinged ...