"I am grateful." Researchers make surprising discovery off island coastline: 'High abundances' first appeared on The Cool ...

A true story about the world's largest burrowing clam, its harvesting methods, and its rise as a prized seafood delicacy in the Pacific Northwest.

Butter clams, important to many Alaskans’ diets, are notorious for being sources of the toxin that causes sometimes-deadly paralytic shellfish poisoning. Now a new study is providing information that ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

The Atlantic surfclam, an economically valuable species that is the main ingredient in clam chowder and fried clam strips, has returned to Virginia waters in a big way, reversing a die-off that ...

Some critters have more star power than others. It helps to be cute like sea otters or monarch butterflies. Or gracefully dangerous like great white sharks and mountain lions. Or edible like abalone ...

Since the first fiber optic cables rolled out in the 1970s, they've become a major part of everything from medical devices to high-speed internet and cable TV. But as it turns out, one group of marine ...

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 ...

YARMOUTH, Maine (AP) — A fisheries science center is funding research projects designed to learn more about a pair of valuable ocean clams. The work will concern the ocean quahog and surf clam, which ...

Buried in the muck beneath Puget Sound lives the Pacific Northwest's most profitable marine creature, a mollusk so valuable that gangsters have traded it for narcotics: the geoduck (pronounced "gooey ...

Craig Parker popped his head above the surf, peeled off his dive mask and clambered aboard the Ichiban. We were anchored 50 yards offshore from a fir-lined peninsula that juts into Puget Sound. Sixty ...