The purplish shells of quahogs, treasured in the past by Native Americans, now appear alongside gold, mother-of-pearl and ...

Depending on the type, clams range in color from white to brown to grey. Mussels are more whimsical in appearance, with a ...

Like oysters and mussels, clams are bivalves, a kind of mollusk that's encased in a shell made of two valves, or hinging parts. And that shell comes in all different sizes. There are small clams ...

A fatal leukemia that decimates soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria) populations in the Atlantic may ... which convert the clear circulatory fluid of healthy animals to a milky-white color. Sickened animals ...