Along the cold coastal waters of the Pacific Northwest lives one of the most unusual creatures found in the ocean, the geoduck clam. Known for its massive size and strange appearance, this saltwater ...

Geoduck clams, grown in Baja California, are increasingly being smuggled illegally to China Mexican geoduck clam populations are suffering as legal harvests are threatened by rampant poaching, which ...

Once buried, a geoduck's shell remains sedentary. While other clams move to avoid predators, a geoduck, when approached by a hungry crab or spiny dogfish, retracts its siphon, like a turtle ...

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 ...

HARSTINE ISLAND, Wash. (AP) — John King plunges his arm up to his shoulder into the mudflats of Puget Sound, roots around and soon pulls from the muck the world’s largest burrowing clam. The mollusk ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The geoduck, extraterrestrial clam god of Puget Sound, has survived for thousands of years in local waters, with individual ...

The escalating trade war between the US and China has severely impacted the geoduck industry in Washington state. Pronounced “gooey-duck,” the world’s largest burrowing clam has been harvested in ...

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