While mussels are a vital and economically important food source, their filter-feeding behavior causes them to absorb ...

A University of Minnesota study released last week looks at ways to kill one of Minnesota’s most harmful invasive species. Zebra mussels have encrusted boats, disrupted food chains and cut the feet of ...

PHILADELPHIA – Water tanks line a room in this city’s Water Works on the bank of the Schuylkill River. Inside are small fish that are hosts to tiny organisms that researchers in the nation’s sixth ...

Seafood lovers who prize the mussel for its earthy taste and succulent flesh may be unaware of its growing potential in the fight against water pollution. The mussel is the hoover of the sea, taking ...

A recent scuba survey of the Kiski River, the first in more than 110 years in what was once a dead river, turned up eight species of freshwater mussels, surprising researchers. For more than a century ...