As the sun moves its position throughout the day, giant clams close or open their shells using their large abductor muscles (the clam meat that people eat). This allows the algae that live inside ...

Like oysters and mussels, clams are bivalves, a kind of mollusk that's encased in a shell made of two valves, or hinging parts. And that shell comes in all different sizes. There are small clams ...

LSU Ph.D. candidate Jacob Warner drilled along the clam's shell to collect samples at each interval of time during the clam’s lifespan to get a snapshot of the ocean temperature as the shell grew.

The clam uses a tiny foot to burrow into the seafloor as it grows. Its shell can end up several feet down, with only its neck poking up into the water. Called siphons, these necks, double-barreled ...

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 ...