One of my favorite pastimes here in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez is exploring the vacant fisherman’s camps that dot the bays and islands. Each camp belongs to a particular angler and his family and friends, ...

TOKYO >> Hills of white scallop shells were piling up in Yubetsu, a town facing the Sea of Okhotsk in Hokkaido. They looked like out-of-season snow mounds. The shells blanketed every free space on a ...

The grave looked, at first, like a familiar Viking Age burial: a woman laid to rest with care, surrounded by objects meant to speak for her in death. Then archaeologists brushed away the soil around ...

Research suggests that the contamination of Isle of Man seabed sediments with zinc, lead and copper from the mining of these metals, which peaked on the island in the late 19th century, is causing the ...

Radiocarbon dating suggests that warm water oysters and bay scallops migrated northwards during and after the climatic thermal maximum. The bay scallops may have arrived too late to reach areas in ...

Dave was the leader of a group of divers I had connected with while on a 1980 sabbatical in San Diego. On one of our dive trips, we crossed the border and drove to Ensenada, Mexico, diving the rocky ...

Maybe collecting shells is a favorite pastime of yours, but you don't know which is a moon snail and which is a mud snail. Or, you're walking along the beach, and something shiny catches your eye, but ...

This story was originally published August 2017. Maybe collecting shells is a favorite pastime of yours, but you don’t know which is a moon snail and which is a mud snail. Or, you’re walking along the ...