There was nothing outwardly impressive about the clam sitting on the deck of the research vessel Bjarni Saemundsson. The dull, gray creature, dredged from the muddy bottom of the North Atlantic, was ...
A new study of bivalve shells has detected two major episodes of instability in the North Atlantic Ocean's circulation ...
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) - Bushels of clams and oysters are devoured every day at Point Lookout Clam Bar, but the shells are no longer going in the trash. On Thursday, the Town of Hempstead ...
Walk along almost any canal in metro Phoenix and you're sure to find thousands of shells, each smaller than a quarter. What are they and how did they get there? Those are the questions reporter John D ...
The fishermen had come for the giant clams, massive mollusks measuring as much as four feet across and weighing 500 pounds. Grinding their boat propellers against coral in the South China Sea, they ...
A clam dredged from icy Arctic waters is being hailed as the world's longest-lived animal. Climate researchers at Bangor University in the United Kingdom recently counted 405 annual growth rings in ...