Like oysters and mussels, clams are bivalves, a kind of mollusk that's encased in a shell made of two valves, or hinging parts. And that shell comes in all different sizes. There are small clams ...

The World’s Oldest Animal ‘Ming’ Had a Tragic End at Age 507, but Its Sacrifice to Science Did Not Go In Vain Ming the clam ...

A drone hovered above the lagoon in Grant-Valkaria Friday to spread 'super-clam cluster bombs' in hopes to seed a once ...

In the sand surrounding coral reefs, the giant clam reigns supreme; they are massive, multi-colored, and statuesque. As the ...

But not all bivalves play by the same rules. In fact, some seem to have thrown the entire rulebook out the window. Ctenoides ales – also known as the electric clam, disco clam or electric flame ...

The clam crisis began in the summer of 1983, when Pacific razor clams — bivalves that burrow into sandy intertidal zones from California to Alaska — inexplicably vanished from Washington’s coasts. The ...

Most of the harvest goes to China, where cooks in Shanghai and Beijing simmer the clams in hot pots. A single geoduck can fetch $60 in a Hong Kong fish market. The lowly bivalve, it seems ...

A new commensal species,Waldo arthuri (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Galeommatidae), from the Northeastern Pacific. ZooKeys 316: 67-80. Li Jingchun, Ó Foighil D. and Park J. 2013. Triton’s trident: cryptic ...

They were about eight years old. A clam typically lives about 15 years According to some scientists, these bivalve superheroes could be a key to helping restore the lagoon and help solve the ...