The cancer likely started off as an immune cell that mutated, multiplied and adapted to survive in the water. By Carl Zimmer In the 1970s, soft-shell clams started mysteriously dying off in Maine and ...

As the Arctic Ocean warms this century, shellfish, snails and other animals from the Pacific Ocean will resume an invasion of the northern Atlantic that was interrupted by cooling conditions three ...

There's no barrier to love for a tiny crab that tickles its way into mollusks to find a mate, a new study has found. How these so-called pea crabs, which live alone inside shellfish, find love has ...

Health officials are urging residents to stay away from certain shellfish as a toxic algae bloom has contaminated the waters off the Southern California coast. "The public should take precautions to ...

An estimated 1,100 people died in the extreme heat of June 2021 in British Columbia, Oregon, and Washington. So did millions of sea creatures. While the record-smashing heat killed shellfish across ...

A map supplied by the state Department of Environmental Protection illustrates the area of Barnegat Bay affected by the shellfish harvesting suspension. (Submitted photo) Shellfish harvesting in ...

Authorities have issued a warning against consuming shellfish along the West Coast due to a harmful algal bloom, known as red ...