ANAVYSSOS, Greece (AP) — With rapid efficiency, a mysterious parasite is seeking out and killing a giant species of clam found only in the Mediterranean Sea. Unless scientists can find a way of ...

Pinna nobilis, a large Mediterranean clam known as the noble pen shell, is vital to the marine ecosystem but on the brink of extinction due to a deadly parasite. In Croatia, a team of scientists is ...

The fishermen had come for the giant clams, massive mollusks measuring as much as four feet across and weighing 500 pounds. Grinding their boat propellers against coral in the South China Sea, they ...