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 ...

ZAGREB, Sept 18 (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 ...

Anavyssos, Greece – 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 stopping it ...

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 ...

“Scientists have discovered a young group of endangered giant clams off the coast of Croatia in the Adriatic Sea,” posted Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio to his 60 million-plus followers on his ...

A huge decline in the number of noble pen shells, an endangered species of Mediterranean clam, is happening in Croatia’s south, as scientists warn that the parasite causing the problem is spreading ...