HARKERS ISLAND, N.C. (WMBF) – The storm waves brought on by Hurricane Dorian in early September has turned up interesting finds on the Carolina coast, including a two-pound clam shell. The Cape ...

April 17 (UPI) --The Philippine Coast Guard seized more than 200 tons of fossilized clam shells worth nearly $25 million this week in a joint law enforcement operation. A Facebook post from the agency ...

If you're wondering what the weather was like several thousand years ago, well … there aren't going to be weather reports from back then that you can check. What there are, however, are fossilized ...

Philippine authorities seized around 200 tons of fossilized giant clam shells worth $25 million in the province of Palawan on Friday. It is illegal to catch, gather, sell, purchase, possess or ...

Discovering a new species is always exciting, but so is finding one alive that everyone assumed had been lost to the passage of time. A small clam, previously known only from fossils, has recently ...

Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

A species of clam is back from the dead. Known as Cymatioa cooki, the clam had only ever been found as a fossil, and scientists presumed that the species had been extinct for more than 40,000 years.

There are extinctions, and then there’s the “Great Dying.” That was the Permian-Triassic extinction around 250 million years ago, which wiped out nearly all life on Earth. Scientists have been ...