This week’s low midafternoon tides provided excellent beachcombing conditions around lunchtime. I found a variety of treasures, including pen shells, pear whelks, and hundreds of Atlantic cockles.

Two local bivalves — meaning “two shells” and referring to mollusks like oysters and clams — have developed contagious cancers: the eastern soft-shell clam, which is non-native and arrived from the ...

A clam believed to be more than 200 years old was released last week by the Gulf Specimen Marine Lab in Florida. According to the GSML, the geriatric mollusk may have been born in the same year as ...

A new study reveals a bright spot for shellfish populations in the northeast Pacific Ocean. Combining paleontological tools and archaeological data with conservation research, the paper finds that, ...