Last week, I wrote about pelicans, the biggest birds on Sanibel Island, Fla., so this week, I decided to focus on something smaller. Sanibel locals, as well as island visitors, take collecting of ...

When Lindsey Dougherty was an undergraduate student at CU Boulder in 2011, she got the chance to visit North Sulawesi, Indonesia, on a research trip. There, in the clear tropical waters off the coast, ...

Have you ever held a handful of scallop shells and wondered why they are colored differently? Or where the holes in a clam shell came from? And what is a mermaid's purse, exactly? Here's a fun guide ...

Six-year-old Luke Callihan, of Pennington, collects shells on the beach in Brigantine, Sunday, July 2, 2017. (Lori M. Nichols | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) This story was originally published August ...

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 ...

Littleneck clams are blended with breadcrumbs, jalapeño, celery, arugula, and linguiça­—a Portuguese smoke-cured pork sausage—before they are stuffed back into their shells and baked until piping hot ...

Ever found yourself staring at a pile of clams, muttering to yourself, “I wish I knew what to do with those”? Well, here’s the 411 on how to cook clams, how to buy them, and everything else you need ...

A researcher encountered a colorful creature called a disco clam in an Indonesian reef. Now, recent research suggests that she may be narrowing in on answering why this bivalve looks so wild. When ...