The Washington Post

The oldest animal ever found could reveal whether a crucial ocean current will collapse

There was nothing outwardly impressive about the clam sitting on the deck of the research vessel Bjarni Saemundsson. The dull, gray creature, dredged from the muddy bottom of the North Atlantic, was ...
The Boston Globe

To learn the fate of the oceans, it helps to read clams

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 ...
Australian Geographic

The ocean’s giant clams

Don’t believe everything you hear about giant clams. They’re not the man-eating molluscs you think they are. WHO REMEMBERS those old adventure movies where the hero narrowly escapes the clutches of a ...
news.iastate.edu

Iowa State scientist uses clam shells to help build 1,000-year record of ocean climate

AMES, Iowa – Alan Wanamaker, working as a postdoctoral researcher from 2007 to 2009, was charged with beginning to compile a 1,000-year record of the marine climate for a spot in the North Atlantic ...