The animal kingdom has evolved a remarkable number of ways to have sex. Males and females, hermaphrodites, and parthenogenic females that get by without males were all familiar to me, but this week’s ...

Whenever I think of clams, my thoughts go immediately to yummy pastas and savory dishes. But after hearing about the nifty little reproduction trick used by one species of clam, I think the bivalves ...

Gender and the rules governing reproduction are not written in stone. There is no one correct way to propagate a species. Take, for instance, the softshell clam. Right now, in the waters off the coast ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, biologist David Hillis from the University of Texas shows how the freshwater Corbicula clam utilizes ...

RENO, Nev. (AP) – When it comes to invading clams, Lake Tahoe might not be a very good place to make babies. That’s the encouraging conclusion of new research by scientists at the University of Nevada ...