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 ...

Trace fossils, a series of ... 18 cm-long clam shell taken from the island’s reef showed a slowing growth rate in 2010 corresponding to a massive coral bleaching event triggered by El Nino.