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 ...

In a phone call with the News Tribune, Bridget Mire, communications specialist with the Washington Department of Fish and ...

Why it's awesome: Pacific geoducks are large, saltwater clams that can live longer than 165 years. These phallic-looking sea creatures have very long necks called siphons and are considered a culinary ...

I’m hunkered down in an aluminum boat, crammed next to bags of camera gear, scuba equipment, and empty crates that smell of seafood. Wind blasting face. Ears stinging. Nose dripping. Just the typical ...

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 ...

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 ...