LUBEC, Maine -- Out on the mud flats in the easternmost nook of the United States, generations of clam diggers have dug deep into the muck for tasty soft-shells to satisfy New Englanders’ cravings for ...

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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. A couple of weeks ago, on a sunny March Sunday, a group of scientists, ...

You need a permit. Look for bubbles and indentations in the mud. By Jaime Lowe “You always need a permit in order to shellfish,” says Karen Johnson, a commercial shell fisherman who also sells clams ...

This story was originally published August 2017. Maybe collecting shells is a favorite pastime of yours, but you don’t know which is a moon snail and which is a mud snail. Or, you’re walking along the ...

Veronique Greenwood is a science writer who contributes regularly to Globe Ideas. On the seafloor off the coast of British Columbia, sediment swirls and a black tube snakes by, disappearing into a ...