ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A fan mussel found only in the Mediterranean was officially added to the list of critically endangered species, after scientists recorded a dramatic decline in its population ...

Note to readers: This is Part 5 in a five-part series. The News-Press and Naples Daily News recently met with Jose H. Leal at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium on Sanibel. Leal is ...

ZAGREB (Reuters) - Croatian marine biologists are struggling to save the largest Mediterranean clam from extinction after a precipitious fall in numbers which they say was probably caused by a deadly ...

Diving in the cold November sea near the Croatian coast to check several submerged onion bags hanging on the suspended rope, Croatian marine biologists Silvija Kipson and Sandro Dujmović were in for a ...

Pinna nobilis, a large Mediterranean clam known as the noble pen shell, is vital to the marine ecosystem but on the brink of extinction due to a deadly parasite. In Croatia, a team of scientists is ...

ANAVYSSOS, Greece (AP) — With rapid efficiency, a mysterious parasite is seeking out and killing a giant species of clam found only in the Mediterranean Sea. Unless scientists can find a way of ...