Freshwater mussels are some of the planet's most fascinating and underappreciated animals. With their beautifully colorful shells, diversity of shapes and interesting adornments — including ridges, ...

“Freshwater mussels are an important part of the Chesapeake ... “This grant will buoy efforts to bring the experts together and chart a common course for mussel restoration in the James.” ...

Freshwater mussels play a key role in filtering water and supporting aquatic ecosystems, but native species are declining due to habitat loss, pollution, and invasive species.

Quagga mussels are a freshwater mollusk that damage reservoirs and lakes. Wildlife resources agencies are working to prevent the spread of the invasive species. Utah requires boaters to go through a ...

"Freshwater mussels, in and of themselves ... we know that they're happy in their new home," Dunn said. She wants to chart their progress for when they eventually return to see these animals.

DESCRIPTION: Freshwater mussels are bivalve mollusks that have a two- valved hard shell, a soft body with respiratory, digestive and reproductive organs, and a muscular foot for locomotion, burrowing ...

A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist holds a dead spike mussel, the same species of freshwater mussel studied by researchers at Penn State. Credit: Meagan Racey/USFWS Sixty-two years ago ...

They didn’t find any this time. Freshwater mussels are extremely sensitive to water quality. The wrong kind of runoff — too much dirt eroding into a stream, ammonia from farm fertilizer or a ...

At low tide, they spotted and collected about 120 freshwater mussels, which have become much less common in the region's rivers and streams. Freshwater mussels are bivalve mollusks, like oysters ...

JEREMIAH HAAS column logo with this (place column log in 2nd stik of copy) Freshwater mussels are a group of animals that are understood far less than nearly anything else in our rivers ...

Their purpose is to serve as temporary homes for freshwater mussels by providing conditions that can’t be replicated in a lab environment. The Urban Stream Research Center raises freshwater ...

I felt like a scientist doing field work,” Choi said. “It was like Pokémon — you get to find these different species of mussel.” A volunteer holds a handful of freshwater mussels collected from the ...