Long before pollution, dams and dredging threatened freshwater mussels living in Indiana rivers and streams, the mollusks faced another devastating menace: Fashion. A nearly insatiable demand for ...

Bivalves have been a big part of the regional diet ever since Native peoples started feasting on them millennia ago — ancient heaps of discarded shells along the Maine shore document as much. Several ...

Cheaper than clams, but equally as tasty and packing just as much protein and briny, oceanic flavors, mussels are high on the list of faves for seafood lovers. Steam and stir the mussels in sweet ...

Zebra mussels were recently found at Des Moines Water Works. What to know about the invasive species and why the Iowa DNR isn ...

North Carolina wildlife officials are warning against an invasive shellfish from the Ukraine that might have been purchased in aquarium moss balls. The state Wildlife Resources Commission said on ...

Mt. Pleasant, Mich (WNEM) – A graduate student from Central Michigan University unraveled information regarding freshwater mollusk in the Tittabawassee River watershed. When updated a 40-year ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Jordan Richard sorts through dead freshwater mussels (all pheasantshell) at Sycamore Island on the Clinch River in Virginia. Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

An invasive species of mollusk that entered the U.S. via shipments of aquarium moss balls has now been found in pet stores across 21 states. The shellfish, known as zebra mussels, became the center of ...