But as it turns out, a foot is just one of the many bizarre features you'll find inside a clam. Like oysters and mussels, clams are bivalves, a kind of mollusk that's encased in a shell made of ...

Giant clams can grow larger than one metre across, and weigh up to 250 kg Around 200 tonnes of illegally harvested giant clam shells worth nearly $25 million (£18 million) have been seized in the ...

This washes off the salt, and helps remove the loose sand from the shells' exterior. Using a stiff brush or a clean scouring ...

It’s the texture of the shells that make for the easiest identification between them. Clam shells are exfoliated by the sand they bury themselves in, so they are smooth. Oyster shells are rough ...

Popular species of clam include: American hard shell clams – large clams with a thick, heavy shell Palourdes (also known as Manilla clams) – clams with a pretty, marbled shell that are ...

The giant clam, or Tridacna gigas, is the world's largest marine bivalve mollusk, a group of invertebrate animals with two-part shells. It can grow up to 4.5 feet in length and weigh more than 700 ...

Littlenecks are found on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, which is why their shells should always be scrubbed clean before cooking ... reports suggest the dish might have originated in Narragansett, ...

The Neanderthals living at Grotta dei Moscerini in the Latium region around 90,000 years ago were shaping the clam shells into sharp tools. Paolo Villa, from the University of Colorado ...

So the wind began to blow and waves crashed around the clam, causing it to burst ... and covered it with the coconut shell. This created an island an the woman was saved. The island is now known ...

Fernando Silva of 9to5Mac came up with a clever workaround to have ‘clamshell mode’ in iPadOS 17 when an iPad is connected to an external display. The catch: it doesn’t really turn off the iPad’s ...