What's inside a clam? A retractable foot, a siphon for sucking up water, powerful muscles, and, sometimes, a pearl. And you thought oysters were fancy.

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Some days at low tide at Virginia Beach, you suddenly realize you are walking over thousands of tiny little moving shells in the swash. A wave recedes and the sand is dotted with these minute clams ...

Jace Tunnell is the Director of Community Engagement for the Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.

M.I.T. scientists have designed a new robot. You’ll probably never see it though—it’s meant to be hidden. Because it’s a robot clam. Engineers wanted to design a lightweight anchor that could be ...

This story was produced through a collaboration between Climate Central and the NJ Spotlight News. Seagulls and the setting sun hung low over the Manasquan Inlet as a 125-foot clam trawler motored ...