A shell bed full of small razor clam shells was at the ocean’s edge on one of the low, low tides this week in Virginia Beach. I grew up calling these shells just plain razor clams, but there are ...

A walk along a natural seashore reveals the shells of many mollusks that have washed up with the tide. Like the bone in the television series by that name, every shell has a story to tell. And like ...

They form from the inside out. A thin tissue that adheres to the inner surfaces of the shell, called the mantle, and a thickened rim of muscular tissue at the mantle edge deposit new shell material at ...

It’s my second day at the Tucson Gem Show and I’m standing in front of the Expo Center, examining the fossilized shell of the world’s largest giant killer clam. It’s gray-white and smooth, with a lip ...

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 ...

Give a marine snail an easy life, and it will take its time drilling into a clam. Put it under competitive stress, and it will look for a faster route. Those changes, scarred into fossils, show that ...

This is Highly Recommend, a column dedicated to what people in the food industry are obsessed with eating, drinking, and buying right now. A traditional clam shucker resembles a bread knife with a ...

Jasmine Demers Nov 23, 2019 Nov 23, 2019 Updated May 15, 2020 For years, scientists have studied trees to learn about yearly rainfall, temperature and climate over time. Now, a University of Arizona ...