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.

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 ...

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.

A new study of kelp fossils from the coast of Washington state show that kelp forests, which host all manner of marine life, developed tens of millions of years ago.

Anelise Chen’s genre-bending book “Clam Down” sees an insightful metaphor in a text message typo. By Chelsea Leu Chelsea Leu is a writer and critic whose work has appeared in The Times, The ...

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 ...

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.

What does the skeleton of a Pikachu or Tyrantrum look like? An exhibit in Japan and online shows visitors "fossils" of Pokémon characters and real fossils to teach about paleontology.

These fossils are a record of an ecosystem that flourished 10 million years before a killer asteroid slammed into Earth. We have been targeting special fossil assemblages called vertebrate ...