AMES, Iowa – Two Iowa State University graduate students are just back from the Gulf of Maine with another big catch of clam shells. Shelly Griffin and Madelyn Mette recently boarded a lobster boat, ...

These clam recipes show how versatile this sweet and briny shellfish can be, from variations on clam chowder to Rhode ...

This is Highly Recommend, a column dedicated to what people in the food industry are obsessed with eating, drinking, and buying right now. A traditional clam shucker resembles a bread knife with a ...

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 ...

The growth layers in a 70-million-year-old clam shell indicate that a year back then had more than 370 days, with each day being only about 23.5 hours. Open up a clam, and you might see the making of ...

There are a lot of different reasons why a clam might open its shell. My friend Jonathan Robinson, a marine ecologist at Washington State University, told me all about it. If we spent some time where ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Closeup of freshly harvested little neck clams - John Piekos/Getty Images Clams are a tasty and nutritious shellfish that can be ...