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 ...

A walk along a natural seashore reveals the shells of many mollusks that have washed up with the tide. Like the bone in the television series by that name, every shell has a story to tell. And like ...

The tiny, pale surf clam about the size of a fingernail that most people have seen and collected on beaches around the world holds clues in its shell to Earth's past. For the first time, researchers ...

THEY SAY THE SHORES of the Great South Bay were once covered in clam shells. If environmentalists and Suffolk County officials have their way, those shores will someday soon be teeming with shells ...