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 where ...

Macoma balthica (L.), an abundant clam, ubiquitous in temperate estuaries across the North Atlantic, is known to practice both alternative basic modes of feeding available to seafloor invertebrates.

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 ...

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Editor's note: With spring finally arriving and an abundance of wildlife happenings, Sue Pike will be writing Sue's Nature News weekly through the summer months. When you look out at the mud flats a ...

As China’s ban on West Coast shellfish continues on, geoduck purveyors are looking to bump up demand for the unique clam at home. Read: Developing A Taste For Geoduck In The Northwest Geoduck is a ...

It's a tough life for a shipworm. Stuck to the same piece of wood since they were teeny larvae, these rapidly-growing clams need to get creative to feed themselves, and also reproduce with nearby ...

Researchers didn't know what to make of sunken pieces of wood that were so thoroughly chewed-up by clams that the wood crumbled in their hands. It turns out, the super-chewer wood-eating clams had a ...

When this type of phallic-looking clam is around, discarded timber turns into a tasty treat. Researchers recently discovered one new species and several new genus groups of wood-boring clams, which ...