Nantucket trusts a clam to predict how much longer winter will be around. Quentin the Quahog disagrees with the groundhogs.

From their remarkable lifespan to their unique shells, ocean quahogs provide an incredible window into marine climate history. The ocean quahog is a bivalve mollusk, meaning it has two hard shells ...

Here are some of The Providence Journal's most-read stories for the week of March 10, supported by your subscriptions. Here are the week's top reads on providencejournal.com: The hard-shell clam ...

We're back to wampum! Narrator: Before a shell is broken for wampum, quahogs, or hard-shell clams, are acquired from ocean waters. The art of making wampum beads comes from Native Americans along ...