WASHINGTON – Montana’s reservoirs and water systems are free of invasive mussels, which lowers Colorado’s risk of invasion, said Mike Preston with the Dolores Water Conservancy District on Wednesday.

Freshwater mussels, what many call clams, often go unnoticed, buried at the bottom of lakes and rivers. Most times we only find a shell washed up on a beach. Though hidden, freshwater mussels are ...

Researchers from Penn State's Department of Civil and Environment Engineering analyzed the composition of mussels downstream of a wastewater treatment facility in Western Pennsylvania that had ...

The state is rolling back invasive mussel restrictions at Lake Oroville, meaning boaters can once again access the lake 24 ...

You may have heard that various kinds of invasive plants and animals create problems for the species that are native to an area. In the case of the quagga mussel, which only grows to the size of a ...

Survival of the fittest is expertly exemplified by one marine creature: Minnesota’s freshwater mussels. These shellfish are being applauded for their unique and clever survival strategy. They ...

The frequent presence of leeches with a hidden lifestyle in the mantle cavity of freshwater mussels has been recorded since the second half of the 19th century. Yet this was, until now, regarded as an ...

Burrowed into streambeds and rarely moving for their decades-long lifespans, freshwater mussels are biomonitors, meaning they indicate how clean their environment is, according to researchers. As the ...