Other mussels can jump up and clamp onto a fish’s face to expel their larvae onto its gills. • Worldwide there are 890 known freshwater mussel species, and 302 of those live in North America.

Freshwater mussels are one of the most endangered groups of animals in the world — over 80 species are protected under the Endangered Species Act and >20 species have recently gone extinct. As such, ...

At low tide, they spotted and collected about 120 freshwater mussels ... water filtration. Adult mussels can each filter up to 10 gallons of water per day. They can live for up to 100 years ...

Freshwater mussels at risk of extinction have started reproducing for the first time in 13 years. Conservationists have been monitoring the River Irt which is home to the "critically endangered ...

These freshwater mussels, about 10 centimetres in size but sometimes exceeding 15 centimetres, can live up to 100 years, depending on the species. While they might sound like marine mussels that ...

This news is important because freshwater mussels are considered key indicators of water quality, and their presence in the ...

and they live in the rivers and lakes, rivers and streams of Wisconsin. NATHAN DENZIN (voice-over): Lisie Kitchel is a mussel expert at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. LISIE KITCHEL ...

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 ...

While this might seem like not the most eventful live-link of all time: "Our assumption was that the life seen through the nature camera would be mostly static, with nothing really happening. But when ...

If you do collect your own mussels, make sure the waters are unpolluted. They are at their best in the colder months outside the breeding season. Shop around when buying mussels and select those ...

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