One animal that can be squeezed out by low water is mussels. Lisie Kitchel, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources: They're basically just, you know, a mollusk with two shells, and they live in ...
Similarly, zebra mussels overgrow and smother the shells of native freshwater mussels, which have no evolutionary experience with such fouling organisms. Many native mussel populations in the ...
But what’s going on under the water is an amazing process that grows and cultures freshwater pearls from our own native Tennessee mussels. Bob Keast is the owner of Birdsong Marina, Resort ...
Native freshwater mussels play a remarkable role in cleaning the environment, Annis said. They eat nutrients that cause scummy and dangerous harmful algal blooms and eat E. coli, the bacteria ...
Water tanks line a room in Philadelphia’s Water Works on the bank of the Schuylkill River. Inside are small fish that are hosts to tiny organisms that researchers ...