J. H. Salisbury, State Chemist, New York, has, in the " Plow, Loom and Anvil," presented an analysis of oyster and clam shells, to which the attention of our farmers, near our coasts, should be ...

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 ...

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 ... “Most species in a genus behave in similar ways. But the disco clam has red tissue, which its nearest relatives don’t, and it makes this flashing ...

Both mollusks have two shells that can vary in appearance, but clam shells are typically more rounded and pretty symmetrical, while mussels are usually longer. As far as color, clam shells are ...

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 ...

Shell-on clams tend to be full of sand and need ... They can easily upgrade a simple tomato sauce that's feeling flat by ...

Giant clams — the largest grow to a shell length of 54 inches and weigh nearly 500 pounds — live in coastal areas next to coral reefs in the Red Sea and the Indo-Pacific. Giant clams are generally ...