The dreaded, destructive golden mussel has become an urgent topic among San Joaquin Valley water agencies prompting near ...

This video explores how three invasive fish species, a fast-spreading mussel and a single mink are disrupting entire ecosystems. Viewers learn how each species arrived, spread and began outcompeting ...

The rapid proliferation of dreissena rostriformis bugensis—the quagga mussel—has major implications for power plant reliability. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation installed a groundbreaking solution at ...

Mussels clean the water from pollutants but all of those pollutants pass through their body. The threshold the mussels can ...

Quick—name a dish that's inexpensive, quick-cooking, fancy enough for a party, but easy enough to make on a weeknight. If you said mussels, we're on the same wavelength. These tasty bivalves are a ...

Freshwater mussels function as nature’s water treatment plants. Each animal can filter up to 600 gallons of water per month. And when working together, they can dramatically clean the water of the ...

Mussels can easily be an afterthought next to more fanciful seafood options like oysters and crabs. But the plump, briny bivalves can make for just as tasty a meal — often at an affordable price.

Free webinar to focus on protecting these keystone species from invasive mussels that have been devastating Great Lakes ...

A mussel bed in Northern California is as healthy and biodiverse as it was about 80 years ago, when two young students surveyed it shortly before one was sent to fight in World War II. Resampling the ...

A mussel has been captured on video flapping its mantle in an attempt to lure a fish to involuntarily serve as a host for its larvae. The short clip, which was posted online by the West Virginia ...