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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