The invasive golden mussel reached California’s Delta in 2024. Now, the state is trying to protect Oroville Dam and other reservoirs from it.

A new paper in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry finds that efforts to eradicate invasive mollusks in Idaho's Snake ...

A mysterious die-off of freshwater mussels has biologists scrambling to figure out a cause. Freshwater mussels are critical to river ecosystems and to U.S. water supplies.

A freshwater mussel apocalypse is underway—and no one knows why. Is it climate change, pollution, an unknown disease? A dedicated few are trying to crack the mystery.

Freshwater mussels are the industrious cleaners of lakes and rivers, filtering small algae out of the water and keeping it clear. This positive image has suffered since the spread of the invasive ...

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

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

There are 300 or so freshwater mussel species in North America, and many have their own ingenious tactics to lure in hosts. But that’s not the only feature that makes these animals so remarkable.

Freshwater mussels are even finicky in sickness and death. Monitoring a mussel’s health is nearly impossible, said Tony Goldberg, a veterinary epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin ...

Freshwater mussels in laundry baskets kept afloat with pool noodles are placed into a pond by a researcher for DuPage County’s Urban Stream Research Center.

Freshwater mussels can pump and filter eight to 15 gallons of water a day, cleaning rivers and streams. Six of the 50 mussels that call Texas home are federally protected by Monday’s listing.