Rings on the shell indicate how many years old a clam may be. Mantle tissue that is located under and in contact with the shell secretes proteins and mineral to form the shell. Think of laying ...

Where you should go: Any beach covered with clams or open shells. Lavallette ... it should be possible to hold bottom with castable sinkers of about 4 ounces -- though you'd best be prepared ...

Q. Are clams and oysters still alive when we eat them raw on the half shell? A. It’s only natural to be squeamish about chomping on a creature so recently forcibly demoted from bivalve to ...

There are a lot of different reasons why a clam might open its shell. My friend Jonathan Robinson, a marine ecologist at Washington State University, told me all about it. If we spent some time ...

But Hensel isn’t looking for living bivalves—she’s searching the mudflat for the shells of dead clams. “I did lose a boot or two,” she recalls. “You can get sunk into it pretty deep.” ...

Grinding their boat propellers against coral in the South China Sea, they excised the shells, leaving half-moon scars and broken reefs in their wake. Even when giant clams became rarer and harder ...