In the early 1900s, closer to a time when Kentucky was an unspoiled Eden, jewel-like freshwater mussels paved the beds of the streams and rivers that ran freely throughout the state. So prized were ...

MOLINE, Ill. — For two and a half months in 2016, wildlife crews relocated thousands of mussels that were in the direct impact zone of where the new I-74 bridge piers would eventually be built. "Our ...

On the outer edge of Bodega Head, the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory is a working waterfront for science. The lab trains students, hosts visiting researchers and runs projects that touch everything ...

Animals can play important roles in cycling nutrients [hereafter consumer-driven nutrient dynamics (CND)], but researchers typically simplify animal communities inhabiting dynamic environments into ...

Megan Bradley, lead mussel biologist with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, prepares to release mussels July 26, 2023, into the Mississippi River along Iowa’s eastern border. The wildlife service is ...

A nearly $1 million project to restore a reproducing population of freshwater mussels into the upper reaches of the West Branch of the Susquehanna River is scheduled to begin next year. A National ...

Environmental scientists and teenage campers recently found an encouraging sign for the health of the Delaware River during a survey near the Pennypack Creek in Northeast Philly. At low tide, they ...

As anglers cast lures into Minnesota’s lakes and rivers this time of year, native mussels lurking on the bottoms of those water bodies are also luring fish — with a surprising bait-and-switch move.

Several years ago, Western Pennsylvania Conservancy biologists documented the first freshwater mussels — eight species in all — found in the Kiski River in over a century. Then, last summer, the ...

New analysis has shown that the UK's first large scale offshore mussel farm might in fact serve as a form of restoration rather than creating habitats never seen in the area before. A map dating from ...

Freshwater mussel historically found in the Delaware River watershed (top) Eastern Pondmussel, Tidewater mucket, and Yellow Lampmussel, (middle) Creeper, Eastern Floater, and Eastern Elliptio, and ...

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