A now-dead clam nicknamed “Ming” is the oldest living individual animal ever found at 507 years old.

Heart cockles have windows in their shells made from natural optical fibers, allowing light through to the algae inside them.

Giant clams — the largest grow to a shell length of 54 inches and weigh nearly 500 pounds — live in coastal areas next to coral reefs in the Red Sea and the Indo-Pacific. Giant clams are generally ...

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 ...

Break the shells in half at the hinge and select ... or four appetiser plates. Arrange the sea urchin (uni) pieces on the clams. Use a fine-tooth rasp-type grater to shave the dried fish roe ...

Plos One The clam shells can be used to make thin ... when you've got high sea levels... is right on the coast. You can see that they're not living there in large numbers for long periods of ...

Popular species of clam include: American hard shell clams – large clams with a thick, heavy shell Palourdes (also known as Manilla clams) – clams with a pretty, marbled shell that are ...