Some critters have more star power than others. It helps to be cute like sea otters or monarch butterflies. Or gracefully dangerous like great white sharks and mountain lions. Or edible like abalone ...

HAMPTON BEACH — One of the great advantages to living along the ocean are the amazing things that show up on the beach after a storm. We often forget that there is a whole world under the ocean waves ...

Mrs. Dora J. Ryan of Santa Maria, enjoys the comforts of home as friends clam at Pismo Beach in January 1965. “Some 30 years ago I used to come here with my boys, but we didn’t have to go out far for ...

THE MONTH OF May has provided a great introduction to the North Olympic Peninsula for a new outdoors columnist. But the many openings cause some to get overlooked. For example, the clams and oyster ...

PISMO BEACH — Once a cherished local fishery, Pismo clams went missing from their namesake beach for decades. The treasured shellfish, however, are now making a steady, triumphant return. No one knows ...

OCEAN CITY — The game of clam-shell pitching is an old and treasured tradition along the South Jersey shore — but there’s just one problem. “We found a bunch of shells, but one of my son’s shells ...

There are a lot of different reasons why a clam might open its shell. My friend Jonathan Robinson, a marine ecologist at Washington State University, told me all about it. If we spent some time where ...

Six-year-old Luke Callihan, of Pennington, collects shells on the beach in Brigantine, Sunday, July 2, 2017. (Lori M. Nichols | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) This story was originally published August ...