This story first appeared at UCSB’s The Current. Discovering a new species is always exciting, but so is finding one alive that everyone assumed had been lost to the passage of time. A small clam, ...

Small size and cryptic habitat notwithstanding, all of this begs the question of how the clam eluded detection for so long. "There is such a long history of shell-collecting and malacology in Southern ...

We’re all familiar with La Jolla’s sea lions, harbor seals, orcas, garibaldi and seabirds. But in this series of stories called Species of the Month, the Light sheds light on other, lesser-known ...

A butter clam. Butter clams are found from the Aleutian Islands to the California coast. They are known to retain algal toxins longer than other species of shellfish. (Photo provided by the Washington ...

Another season of Washington Coast razor clamming was kicked off with the first digs of the year on Oct. 6, with a seven day tidal series. Most diggers did well, but some were disappointed with the ...

There is nothing that says summer like a big basket of fried clams, or a plate of steamers with drawn butter. But what are those clams and where did they come from? Well, here is more than you ever ...

At the end of the small jetty at Bob's Landing on Lake Karaapiro, what looks like a bed of silt-covered gravel turns out to be something else entirely. Peering through an underwater viewer to look at ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Discovering a new species is always exciting, but so is finding one alive that everyone assumed had been lost to the passage of time. A small clam, previously known only from ...