Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Do you love the quahog like a good Rhode Islander should? Then have we got the week for you. The state's Department of ...

PROVIDENCE – So you’re new to Rhode Island and you don’t know what a quahog is. Or maybe you’ve been here a while and you’re too embarrassed to ask. Here's everything you need to quickly get up to ...

There’s nothing more Rhode Island than a quahog. At least, that’s what the Coventry Junior High Shell Club argued in 1987, when they lobbied (successfully) for it to be named the state shell. Its ...

"The indigenous tribes of Rhode Island gathered quahogs to eat, long before the colonists arrived, and used them to make chowder." There’s a pretty good reason that Native Americans didn’t make creamy ...

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The purplish shells of quahogs, treasured in the past by Native Americans, now appear alongside gold, mother-of-pearl and onyx. By Jill Newman For centuries Native Americans treasured quahog shells, ...

Quahog clams provide evidence that critical North Atlantic Ocean currents may be approaching a “tipping point,” researchers said. Mehdi Benkaci Unsplash Just as tree rings can tell us how old a tree ...

A clam named Ming lived for 507 years in the North Atlantic. Ming is the oldest documented non-colonial animal ever recorded. Studying Ming may reveal secrets of longevity and ageing. Did our AI ...

Do you love the quahog like a good Rhode Islander should? Then have we got the week for you. The state's Department of Environmental Management has declared May 11-18 as Quahog Week in Rhode Island.