Sea silk, once spun from endangered clams, may make a comeback — thanks to discarded fibers from a farmed species. The find could sustainably revive a fading art.

To fend off predators, the glimmering disco clam may use sulfuric acid, say researchers.

Ming is a 507-year-old clam, and the oldest animal known to science.

Science News sponsorship position. Comparing seagrass patches that died with patches that survived, van der Heide and his colleagues propose that maintaining the clam partnership made a difference.

Many predators lurk in the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific Ocean, but the so-called disco clam has a flashy defense mechanism — a spectacular light show — to scare away potential threats.

Science and Environment News Ancient clams discovered by College of Wooster geologist reveal how Earth rebounded from mass extinction Updated: Feb. 27, 2010, 4:55 p.m. | Published: Feb. 27, 2010 ...

“I think there’s a lot of power in that, a great power and meaning in the history of clams as food, and now clams as science.” The giant clam’s glow may be signaling something, after all.

The 'disco clam' reflects bright light in pulses, much like a mirrored disco ball.

The brilliant sheen on giant clams reflects sunlight into the clam's interior, providing light for the algae that live in the clams' tissue.

In Science, Herbert W. Weiss and William H. Shipman tell what they found when they checked the flesh of two giant “killer” clams (Tridacna gigas) collected last year from the shore of Rongelap ...