The giant clam, known for its colorful cape-like mantle, wavy shell and astonishing size, is in danger of going extinct after its population plunged by more than 80% over the last century, according ...

A new Stanford-led study has provided the strongest evidence yet for why some marine animals survived Earth’s largest mass ...

Although it is probably not possible to underrate the intelligence of clams, their athletic skills apparently deserve more respect. Olaf Ellers, a marine invertebrate biomechanic at the University of ...

There was nothing outwardly impressive about the clam sitting on the deck of the research vessel Bjarni Saemundsson. The dull, gray creature, dredged from the muddy bottom of the North Atlantic, was ...

Not all bivalves are created equal. Oysters and clams are both bivalves—animals with two connected shells—but they have more differences than similarities. While the differences may not be obvious at ...

Wood-boring clams are tiny clams that eat (and live in) sunken wood at the bottom of the ocean, and they have long, tube-shaped organs that they use to breathe called siphons sticking out of their ...

A strange new species of clam that’s shaped like a penis has been discovered by scientists. The phallic creature roams the ocean floor and munches on soggy wood for its dinner. Bits of fallen trees ...

The giant clam, known for its colorful cape-like mantle, wavy shell and astonishing size, is in danger of going extinct after its population plunged by more than 80% over the last century, according ...