A robot that can dig quickly and deeply into mud or wet sand could one day help lay underwater cables, dig up and detonate underwater mines, or anchor machines to the seafloor, researchers say. The ...

Love science? This news might captivate your inner Bill Nye. Sarasota Bay Watch recently announced that it received the state's first underwater aquaculture lease for clam restoration and research.

The Town of Oyster Bay has alleged in a new lawsuit that shellfish company Frank M. Flower & Sons violated its lease with the town for underwater land use starting about four years ago by failing to ...

A cluster of the new giant file clam species, Acesta cryptadelphe, are attached to a rocky surface in the Gully Marine Protected Area, about 220 km off the coast of Nova Scotia.

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Usually well known for what they add to chowder or linguine, clams are now inspiring robotics research. Scientists at MIT are studying the digging capabilities of the razor clam to figure out how to ...

Around 100,000 years ago, in what is now Italy, our Neandertal cousins waded out into the shallow coastal waters of the Mediterranean Sea in search of clams. They grabbed the mollusks from the ...

'Shell-crushing,' an explosive sound, occurs when marine animals crack open hard shells like clams to eat the edible tissue. There hasn't been any data to support this feeding noise, until now. A ...

Join us on a Massachusetts fried-clam tour & visit Cape Cod’s Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. This week, host Richard Wiese meets the scientists at Cape Cod’s Woods Hole Oceanographic ...

A shell fishing company can transplant clams again from the protected Mill Neck Creek to Oyster Bay Harbor for harvesting under a permit the state issued on March 31. The New York State Department of ...