Lauren Murphy is a writer and environmentalist based in the Pacific Northwest. She holds a degree in Environmental Sciences from Western Washington University. Geoducks (pronounced "gooey ducks") are ...

On a typical morning, Lief Cofield and his three crew members pile into a 30-foot aluminum boat to harvest hundreds of pounds of geoduck clams. But for more than two weeks, his boat, the Eagle Scout, ...

Nestled beneath the sand on the subtidal beaches of the Pacific Northwest, a unique mollusk called a geoduck (Panopea generosa) makes its home. Pronounced "gooey duck," this bivalve gets its name from ...

WHIDBEY ISLAND — Caked with sand from head to toe, Keith Akada of Seattle was down on all fours feeling for the world’s largest bivalve buried in 3 feet of sand. “I can feel its shell,” shouted Akada ...

Craig Parker popped his head above the surf, peeled off his dive mask and clambered aboard the Ichiban. We were anchored 50 yards offshore from a fir-lined peninsula that juts into Puget Sound. Sixty ...

Remember Hung Huynh, the Season Three winner of cable television's Top Chef? And remember that really weird ingredient he used to create a dish one of the judges called "three-star worthy"? It was ...

BRINNON -- We offer the advantageous perspective of one who has faced and survived the fearsome geoduck, that behemoth of Puget Sound's primal muck -- and one who may never attempt it again: You do ...