Goro, on the Adriatic Sea, is famous for its clams — essential for the beloved spaghetti alle vongole. But an infestation of crabs is threatening the town’s cash crop. By Jason Horowitz Reporting from ...

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 ...

AMES, Iowa – Alan Wanamaker, working as a postdoctoral researcher from 2007 to 2009, was charged with beginning to compile a 1,000-year record of the marine climate for a spot in the North Atlantic ...

Snorkeling amid the tree-tangled rock islands of Ngermid Bay in the western Pacific nation of Palau, Alison Sweeney lingers at a plunging coral ledge, photographing every giant clam she sees along a ...

HEMPSTEAD, Nassau County (WABC) -- If you ate clams or oysters at a restaurant in the town of Hempstead recently, you were helping a new barrier reef project. The town has been collecting thousands of ...

If you’ve walked the shoreline this week, you may have noticed something unusual happening at your feet: a patch of sand that seemed to tremble, shimmer or even “come alive.” That moving ground wasn’t ...

GORO, Italy — Before dawn in Goro, on the Adriatic Sea, Massimo Genari drove by the central roundabout, with its sculpture of two concrete clams in a net, and under a billboard of a mollusk donning a ...