McDonald's Happy Meal web site confirms that the October 2015 kids' meal theme will be based on the current film Hotel Transylvania 2 (not The Nightmare Before Christmas, which was released back in in 1993).
There are differences in the shell textures of oysters and clams. The shell of a clam is smooth and shiny while an oyster has a rough outer shell. Both the organisms take in water through the shells but the filtering procedure is different. Oysters produce pearls which are in much demand but clams do not.
of 10. Hard-Shell Clams / Quahogs / Round Clams (Mercenaria mercenaria) Hard-Shell Clams. Photo Â© Puzant Apkarian/Getty Images Hard-shell clams (Mercenaria mercenaria) go by many names. Littlenecks, topnecks, cherrystones, chowdersâthey are all the same clam, just different sizes (listed below from smallest to biggest). They live in the Atlantic Ocean along the east coasts of the U.S. and Canada in intertidal areas burrowed in the sand.