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A tiny species of clam never before seen alive has been discovered on a Central Coast beach. Using fossil records, local researchers identified the species and published a paper on their discovery, but questions remain about where it’s been hiding all these years.

A species of clam known only by the 28,000-year-old fossils it left behind has turned up alive and well on an American shoreline.

The only evidence of a species of centimetre-long white clam was a fossil collected 85 years ago, until a researcher stumbled upon one living on the shores near Santa Barbara, California

The reappearance of living Cymatioa cooki clams places it among a group of back-from-the-dead creatures dubbed the Lazarus taxa.

Discovering a new species is always exciting, but so is finding one alive that everyone assumed had been lost to the passage of time. A small clam, prev

Discovering a new species is always exciting, but so is discovering one that was thought to be extinct due to the passage of time.

Discovering a new species is always exciting, but so is finding one alive that everyone assumed had been lost to the passage of time. A small clam, previously k

A clam previously known only from fossils and believed to be long lost to the passage of time was recently found living in California.

Clam is 10 millimeters in size (less than a half inch!)

Discovering a new species is always exciting, but so is finding one alive that everyone assumed had been lost to the passage of time. A small clam, previously k