Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What's inside a clam? A retractable foot, a siphon for sucking up water, powerful muscles, and, sometimes, a pearl. And you ...

Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, have documented what they are calling possibly the most extreme case of animal structure elongation ...

There are a lot of different reasons why a clam might open its shell. My friend Jonathan Robinson, a marine ecologist at Washington State University, told me all about it. If we spent some time where ...

Most people think of clams as a gooey blob inside of a two-piece shell, but there’s actually a lot more going on inside that shell that you might come to expect. While it’s true that a clam is rather ...

What’s that? You haven’t seen the video of the clam “licking” salt off a table? Well sit back and enjoy the uncanny spectacle that is a tonguing clam… then understand this: that’s no tongue. Despite ...

Last week, a clam video went viral. (Get your mind out of the gutter, internet! I mean a bivalve! A mollusc! A lamellibranch!) First, it was perfectly reasonable for most people to think that this ...

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