This week’s low midafternoon tides provided excellent beachcombing conditions around lunchtime. I found a variety of treasures, including pen shells, pear whelks, and hundreds of Atlantic cockles.

A clam believed to be more than 200 years old was released last week by the Gulf Specimen Marine Lab in Florida. According to the GSML, the geriatric mollusk may have been born in the same year as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Volunteers gather to glue eel grass seeds onto living clam shells at the Cedar Island Marine Field Station, in Clinton, Conn., on ...