Another interesting thing inside the clam’s shell is a pair of muscles that clamp the shell shut. These muscles relax or contract, depending on whether the clam wants the shell open or closed. It may ...

The oceanic surf clam is the most important commercial species. The largest clam of the U.S. east coast, it sometimes reaches a shell length of more than eight inches.

The team found that giant clam numbers entered a sharp decline since the previous assessment in 1996. The assessment came to no conclusions about the reason for this falling population, but Li ...

Woman Bites Down On $3,000 Purple Pearl in Clam Shell . Rare find came from Virginia clam shack. By ABC News. December 1, 2014, 5:48 PM. NaN:NaN.

Scientists say that a series of marks carved onto a freshwater clam shell represent the earliest known engravings made by a human ancestor. Oldest art ever? Zigzags on a clam shell are more than ...

Consternation over the death of the world's oldest-recorded animal, a 507-year-old clam nicknamed Ming, has earned marine researchers unhappy headlines worldwide. But a closer look at the story ...

The growth layers in a 70-million-year-old clam shell indicate that a year back then had more than 370 days, with each day being only about 23.5 hours.