The findings, published in the journal Communications Biology, offer clues about how such evolution may have contributed to the giant clam's size. "Giant clams are keystone species in many marine ...

I n an astonishing discovery, scientists have uncovered a clam species believed to have vanished over 40,000 years ago. Known as Cymatioa cooki, this tiny bivalve was thought to exist only in ...

One clam species can live more than 500 years. southlandp/Getty In their recent study, published in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution, Iannello and her team examined the DNA of four species ...

U-M ecology and evolutionary biology graduate student Teal Harrison and her adviser Diarmaid Ó Foighil examined one such instance: a highly specialized community of seven marine clam species ...

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After practically disappearing from San Luis Obispo County shores in the late 1990s, Pismo clams have returned to the area in ...

“It’s counter-intuitive to a lot of people, because clams operate in intense sunlight, but actually they’re really dark on the inside,” said Alison Sweeney, associate professor of physics and of ...

Stuck to the same piece of wood since they were teeny larvae, these rapidly-growing clams need to get creative ... a new study published in the journal Biology Letters reveals.

WASHINGTON— Responding to a petition by biologist Dwayne Meadows, Ph.D., and following the Center for Biological Diversity’s notice of intent to sue, the National Marine Fisheries Service proposed ...