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 ...

They have a shell that’s made up of two halves ... This is light that an organism creates inside its body and radiates out, such as anglerfishes’ infamous luminous lures. There are a few ...

The clam uses a tiny foot to burrow into the seafloor as it grows. Its shell can end up several feet ... they might need to recover inside a decompression chamber. During Parker's morning dive ...

There's always a risk in consuming raw seafood including clams, but rest assured, you can take certain precautions and keep ...

Pearls are the result of a mollusc's reaction to irritants such as parasites that enter its shell ... the growth is spread over the shell's surface in the unmistakable shape of a fish. Pearlfish are ...