Cartorhynchus as it may have looked in life. The amphibious reptile is the oldest known representative of the ichthyosaurs, dolphin-like marine reptiles that entered the oceans after the Permian mass ...

Paralytic shellfish poisoning, or PSP, is a growing concern for Alaska’s entire marine food web, according to a scientist who presented testing data at Alaska Forum on the Environment on Monday. Bruce ...

The cancer likely started off as an immune cell that mutated, multiplied and adapted to survive in the water. By Carl Zimmer In the 1970s, soft-shell clams started mysteriously dying off in Maine and ...

State officials have closed beaches in West Seattle and Vashon Island to recreational shellfish harvesting, after detecting unsafe levels of a potentially deadly toxin in the marine animals, Public ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pink and White Atlantic Giant Cockle on the beach one of the largest shallow-water bivalves.© Natalia Hanin/Shutterstock.com The ...