Despite last year's catastrophic flooding of the Iowa River, researchers last week found six specimens they believe to be the endangered Higgins eye pearly mussel. “We're pretty sure that's what they ...

Only about 25 living adult specimens of the Canoe Creek clubshell were identified in recent surveys. (Frank Chitwood/Coosa Riverkeeper) (CN) — One of Alabama’s most recently discovered and rare ...

Like many sea creatures, mussels along Oregon’s coastline are struggling. Their population took a sudden nose dive this summer, and researchers aren’t sure what’s behind the die-off. This mystery is ...

Part of the middle Snake River quagga mussel treatment area in south-central Idaho in the fall of 2023. Quagga mussel monitoring in the Middle Snake River near Twin Falls, Idaho, is expected to start ...

Idaho State Department of Agriculture invasive-species investigators have found more quagga mussels in the Snake River near Twin Falls, a year after an initial discovery there prompted large-scale ...

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and North Carolina State University (NCSW) have demonstrated that a commonly prescribed antidepressant can interfere with the ...

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) - The Idaho State Department of Agriculture announced that another small number of quagga mussels were detected in the Twin Falls area in the Snake River. Governor Brad Little ...

A mussel has been captured on video flapping its mantle in an attempt to lure a fish to involuntarily serve as a host for its larvae. The short clip, which was posted online by the West Virginia ...

Invasive zebra mussels have been confirmed in Lake Byllesby, the largest lake in southern Dakota County. According to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, the nuisance mollusks were first ...

The longsolid, a small mussel native to Pennsylvania that few in the state have ever heard of, is one of the species at the center of a lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity against the ...