There are a lot of different reasons why a clam might open its shell. My friend Jonathan Robinson, a marine ecologist at Washington State University, told me all about it. If we spent some time where ...

Q. Are clams and oysters still alive when we eat them raw on the half shell? A. It’s only natural to be squeamish about chomping on a creature so recently forcibly demoted from bivalve to univalve ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

A walk along a natural seashore reveals the shells of many mollusks that have washed up with the tide. Like the bone in the television series by that name, every shell has a story to tell. And like ...