AMES, Iowa – Two Iowa State University graduate students are just back from the Gulf of Maine with another big catch of clam shells. Shelly Griffin and Madelyn Mette recently boarded a lobster boat, ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- At San Francisco's Presidio, wildlife ecologists are using nesting pods made with ground-up oyster shells, designed to attract and nurture tiny, growing oysters. It's a ...

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, a team of researchers from the United Kingdom examine centuries-old quahog clam shells to explain the reasons behind a “tipping point” that the ...

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 ...

Likely as not, your vacation travel adventures in months and years past have taken you to the northeastern corner of our great state. If that be the case, then you are intimately familiar with the ...

The Town of Hempstead is building two reefs in the western bays off of Lido Beach using seafood shells. Supervisor Laura Gillen says the plan will save the shores from erosion and the bays from ...

Volunteers in Clinton spent Wednesday morning gluing seeds to clam shells. It is not some kind of arts and crafts project. Instead, it is an innovative way to try to save the Long Island Sound’s ...

Diggers could have as many at 47 days on four Washington beaches to get their share of razor clams this season.

Jasmine Demers Nov 23, 2019 Nov 23, 2019 Updated May 15, 2020 For years, scientists have studied trees to learn about yearly rainfall, temperature and climate over time. Now, a University of Arizona ...

This article was originally published by Hakai Magazine. It’s low tide in Bodega Bay, north of San Francisco, and Hannah Hensel is squishing through thick mud on the hunt for clams. The hinged ...

The raid Friday was the third giant clam bust in just over a month. Since the beginning of March, about $30 million worth of giant clams have been seized from illegal operations. As Editor-in-Chief of ...