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

A Ballston seafood restaurant temporarily shuttered last week and will reportedly undergo some interior changes. Mussel Bar & ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing the salamander mussel as an endangered species. A species of freshwater mussel found in pockets of the Allegheny River might soon be protected ...

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

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 ...

Despite CPW’s best efforts to eradicate zebra mussels from various bodies of water on the Western Slope, 2025 saw the mussels ...

When you think about shellfish, “devious” is probably not the first word that comes to mind. That is, unless you’ve met the parasitic mussel Lampsilis, the trickiest thing on two shells. To attract ...

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.

Annalee Tweitmann stood ankle deep in mud, hands wet with mud, peering at a steep riverbank of mud. Mud comes with the job, she said, and she's fine with that. Because mud is where the mussels are.