Discovering a species new for science is on every researcher’s wish list. Jan Johan ter Poorten is a Dutch expert on cardiid species (family Cardiidae). Recently, he discovered three new species in ...

Transmissible cancers in cockles — marine cancers that can spread through the water — have been sequenced for the first time, unearthing new insight into how these cancers have spread across animal ...

Better water quality in Wales’ most famous cockle area is linked with smaller cockles that have a higher mortality rate, a new survey of fifty years of data has revealed. Cockles have been harvested ...