A walk along a natural seashore reveals the shells of many mollusks that have washed up with the tide. Like the bone in the television series by that name, every shell has a story to tell. And like ...

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 ...

A massive seizure in the Philippines of 200 tonnes of illegally harvested giant clam shells has highlighted the growth of an illicit trade that has proliferated due to a crackdown on the sale of ...

There was nothing outwardly impressive about the clam sitting on the deck of the research vessel Bjarni Sæmundsson. The dull, gray creature, dredged from the muddy bottom of the North Atlantic, was no ...

A geoduck shell found scatted among other shells discarded by the Tseshaht peoples 500 to 1000 years ago suggests that the community had been harvesting and eating geoduck for centuries. Lorraine ...

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Researchers are studying the growth increments in clam shells to learn about past ocean conditions. A better understanding of the ocean's past can help researchers understand today's climate trends ...