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 ...

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 ...

Huellelhue means “place for swimming” in Mapudungun. It’s also the name of one of the rivers that flow through the Lafken ...

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 ...

When it comes to zebra mussels in the Colorado River system, Colorado Parks and Wildlife Director Jeff Davis summed it up this way: “We look, we find.” While Colorado’s first detection of the highly ...

During the last 10-15 years, blue mussels in shallow waters on Sweden’s west coast have largely disappeared. Observations and reviews of studies and reports indicate that climate change may be behind ...

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 ...

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 ...