Once buried, a geoduck's shell remains sedentary. While other clams move to avoid predators, a geoduck, when approached by a hungry crab or spiny dogfish, retracts its siphon, like a turtle ...

HARSTINE ISLAND, Wash. (AP) — John King plunges his arm up to his shoulder into the mudflats of Puget Sound, roots around and soon pulls from the muck the world’s largest burrowing clam. The mollusk ...

Filmmaker Justin Bookey digs deep for the geoduck clam, the world's largest and oldest clam, in 3 Feet Under: Digging Deep for the Geoduck Clam. Pronounced "gooey duck", the clam has a phallic neck, ...

I’m hunkered down in an aluminum boat, crammed next to bags of camera gear, scuba equipment, and empty crates that smell of seafood. Wind blasting face. Ears stinging. Nose dripping. Just the typical ...

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