A shell bed full of small razor clam shells was at the ocean’s edge on one of the low, low tides this week in Virginia Beach. I grew up calling these shells just plain razor clams, but there are ...

In tropical and subtropical regions, instrumental records as well as historical documents are relatively short compared with those in the temperate zones. Also, dendroclimatology is difficult to apply ...

It’s my second day at the Tucson Gem Show and I’m standing in front of the Expo Center, examining the fossilized shell of the world’s largest giant killer clam. It’s gray-white and smooth, with a lip ...

Give a marine snail an easy life, and it will take its time drilling into a clam. Put it under competitive stress, and it will look for a faster route. Those changes, scarred into fossils, show that ...