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 ...

There was nothing outwardly impressive about the clam sitting on the deck of the research vessel Bjarni Saemundsson. The dull, gray creature, dredged from the muddy bottom of the North Atlantic, was ...

A clam dredged from icy Arctic waters is being hailed as the world's longest-lived animal. Climate researchers at Bangor University in the United Kingdom recently counted 405 annual growth rings in ...

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 ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Everyone knows the tiger, the panda, the blue whale, but what about the other five to thirty million species estimated to inhabit our Earth? Many of these marvelous, stunning, and rare species have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clam found off Iceland was 507 - "the oldest animal on Earth", until British scientists killed it When a clam was dredged up from ...