Across the animal kingdom, evolution has opened the door to a growing scientific quest to understand what a menagerie of ...

Step inside Union Oyster House and you’re instantly transported into a seafood‑steeped time capsule, overflowing with Boston ...

TODAY’S WORD — SCALLOPS (SKA-lups: Edible mollusks that swim by opening and closing valves.) Average mark 18 words Time limit 25 minutes Can you find 22 or more words in SCALLOPS? The list will be ...

Sea mollusc shells are patterned not through conscious control, but by chemistry acting at the shell’s growing edge. A thin strip of tissue known as the mantle secretes both the shell material and its ...

Owners of Black Jet Bakery weren't really looking for a second location. But when Damn Fine Coffee left the space, they ...

Garbage disposals can crush up food leftovers like none other, but not all seafood is as easily disposed of down the drain.

The Antscan database captures the tiny insects’ diversity and shows how the world’s living things could be rendered in three dimensions.

I’ve gone to work on an oyster farm on Block Island, a tiny dot of land midway between Long Island and Rhode Island, every May for the past few years. If you are, like most people, unfamiliar with the ...

The Sanibel Shell Show returns to the island this week for the first time since Ian. And organizer Beryl Hosack promises this ...

Rosemary is a herbaceous shrub many people grow for cooking. But it actually has many more uses in the garden, especially when grown with the right companions.

We discuss the 10 most venomous animals on Earth. Read all about them, from the rockfish to the most venomous of all, the Inland Taipan Snake.

The Coyote Canyon Mammoth research dig site contains the remains of a Columbian mammoth likely killed in an Ice Age flood 17,000 years ago.