Giant clams — the largest grow to a shell length of 54 inches ... million members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.

Imagine, if you would, that a clam was a church. Most of the walls are thick and opaque, protecting the animal’s soft insides ...

You can always feel good about buying wild or farmed clams and mussels." Both clams and mussels have some level of brininess, ...

but if you don’t know where the clams came from, or if you harvested them yourself in the wild, it’s wise to let them purge. Rinse the clams under cool running water, then drain in a colander.

Butter clams, important to many Alaskans’ diets, are notorious for being sources of the toxin that causes sometimes-deadly paralytic shellfish poisoning. Now a new study is providing information ...

The United States Food and Drug Administration issued multiple advisories on Wednesday for oysters and clams that they say could be contaminated with norovirus, a serious gastrointestinal illness.