Village managed reefs in American Sāmoa kept giant clam populations stable for 30 years better than federal reserves.

In Denver, there’s a place deep underground that houses flesh-eating beetles, precious artifacts and dead animals. That includes one that witnessed an atomic bomb test. It lives in the archives of the ...

The local government of Cadiz City in Negros Occidental vowed to pursue poachers of giant clams nested in its marine protected area adjacent to the popular Lakawon Island in barangay Cadiz Viejo. On ...

The giant clam, known for its colorful cape-like mantle, wavy shell and astonishing size, is in danger of going extinct after its population plunged by more than 80% over the last century, according ...

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 ...

Once buried, a geoduck's shell remains sedentary. While other clams move to avoid predators, a geoduck, when approached by a hungry crab or spiny dogfish, retracts its siphon, like a turtle ...

SLAUGHTERED These shells are what are left of the giant clams that were “slaughtered” from the Giant Clam Village off the coast of Cadiz City in Negros Occidental, a protected seascape in the ...