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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.

Hiding inside a hard shell that’s up to four feet long and resembles an elephant tusk, there’s a dark-colored earthworm-like creature. At one end, the creature’s body forms a slight bulb. At the other ...

PRICE, Utah — Utah is famous for its discoveries of fossilized dinosaurs, but this latest find is different. The 4-foot-wide clam is on display at the College of Eastern Utah’s Prehistoric Museum in ...

Some days at low tide at Virginia Beach, you suddenly realize you are walking over thousands of tiny little moving shells in the swash. A wave recedes and the sand is dotted with these minute clams ...

Jace Tunnell is the Director of Community Engagement for the Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.

M.I.T. scientists have designed a new robot. You’ll probably never see it though—it’s meant to be hidden. Because it’s a robot clam. Engineers wanted to design a lightweight anchor that could be ...