How can we predict the future? A good way is to look into the past, and who better to ask than one of Earth’s longest-living ...

Some critters have more star power than others. It helps to be cute like sea otters or monarch butterflies. Or gracefully dangerous like great white sharks and mountain lions. Or edible like abalone ...

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 ...

Scientists say that a series of marks carved onto a freshwater clam shell represent the earliest known engravings made by a human ancestor. The zigzag lines visible in the photo above probably were ...

A 2-pound prehistoric clam shell is being cited by Cape Lookout National Seashore as an example of the larger-than-average seashells washing up on the Outer Banks after Hurricane Dorian. Photos posted ...

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. Following is the transcript of the video.