New research from the University of California, Davis, reveals why adding crushed shells to beach sand helps protect ...

As clams do, once placed back in the water they will naturally burrow into the sand ...

Environmental restoration sometimes requires out-of-the-box thinking. Along the waters of Long Island Sound in New York and Connecticut, experts are tackling the challenge of restoring crucial ...

The tiny, pale surf clam about the size of a fingernail that most people have seen and collected on beaches around the world holds clues in its shell to Earth's past. For the first time, researchers ...

Silencing the FECH gene in dwarf surf clams reduced heme, raised protoporphyrin IX, and turned their white shells ...

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 ...