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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aside from two waterfleas, the invasive species living in Lake Erie are very similar to those taking over the rest of the ...

Found in oceans and rivers, they can be natural or cultured. Tap to read more. Mollusks like oysters and mussels, which live ...

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 ...

At its regular meeting Sept. 18, the Environmental Commission heard updates on Austin’s freshwater mussel population from ...

With the first year of data collection wrapped up at the end of August, Hilary is now diving into the results. Next week, ...

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 ...

Austin's freshwater mussels, notably the Texas fatmucket, are garnering conservation efforts for their water purification ...

Down the road, about 100 feet of riverbank usually submerged in the Duck River sat exposed, dotted with the pearly, iridescent shells of recently perished freshwater mussels. Most of Hickman ...