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 ...

At first glance, this dish might raise some eyebrows—but it’s not what you think. We’re turning the Pacific Northwest’s most ...

Oyster Bill Whitbeck is the Seattle area restaurant sales manager for Taylor Shellfish Farms - the largest producer of farmed shellfish in the United States. He believes oyster farmers were the first ...

This fifth-generation Washington oyster farm (also America’s largest producer of farmed shellfish) runs a handful of oyster ...

U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station Coastal Ecology Group National Wetlands Research Center (U.S.) Pacific Coast (U.S.) ...

The Pacific Northwest is a great place to hunt for clams of all types: Razor, manilla, butter, and even the elusive geoduck. But one bivalve flies under the radar: horse clams. Horse clams are the ...

This slimline, eel-like fish has no scales for protection so chooses to use a sea cucumber's sphincter for safety. The Pacific geoduck is a clam that lives along the shore from Alaska to Mexico, can ...

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 ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning to restaurants and retailers to put a pause on serving consumers oysters and clams from specific regions in the Pacific Northwest, as ...

Jasmine Demers Nov 23, 2019 Nov 23, 2019 Updated May 15, 2020 For years, scientists have studied trees to learn about yearly rainfall, temperature and climate over time. Now, a University of Arizona ...