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 fossils, has recently ...

A small clam, previously known only from fossils, has recently been found living at Naples Point, near Santa Barbara. Skip to main content. Your source for the latest research news.

A species of clam is back from the dead. Known as Cymatioa cooki , the clam had only ever been found as a fossil, and scientists presumed that the species had been extinct for more than 40,000 years.

In an astonishing discovery, scientists have uncovered a clam species believed to have vanished over 40,000 years ago. Known as Cymatioa cooki, this tiny bivalve was thought to exist only in ...

The six-inch-long southern quahog clam that Blaine Parker found on a Florida beach on the Gulf of Mexico on Feb. 18. He determined that the clam was born around 1809, the year in which Abraham ...

A 2.6-pound quahog clam believed to be 214 years old was found in Florida's Alligator Point last month. The clam was likely born in 1809 – the same year as Abraham Lincoln – and is named "Aber ...

A huge clam that was on the verge of extinction has made a comeback, with a surge in numbers in waters off Croatia, marine biologists say. Skip to main content.