WASHINGTON— In response to a legal petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect the green floater, a freshwater mussel found from New ...

Maryland Department of Natural Resources biologists retrieved 358 of 368 juvenile eastern elliptio mussels from protective ...

However, these simple mollusks may hold decades of data detailing the historic conditions of Northwest waterways, such as the Little Spokane or Snake rivers, embedded in their shells. Earlier this ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Amberly Choi walked through knee-high water last week, feeling her way through slimy ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday announced it's proposing protections for a rare freshwater mussel historically found in 10 states. The at-risk green floater is a small freshwater mussel ...

It would be a fascinating process even if it wasn’t intended to help clean the Niagara River. Three pregnant native freshwater mussels – named Elizabeth, Imogene and Nelly – have taken up residence in ...

It would be an understatement to say that mussels and other mollusks usually aren't thought of as being particularly active. Recently, however, scientists have documented a water-squirting behavior in ...

WEST COLUMBIA — State biologists need more room to raise a federally endangered mussel species that is only found in the Carolinas. Right now, biologists with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources ...

Golden mussels, or Limnoperna fortunei, were recently found at the Port of Stockton in the Sacramento – San Joaquin River Delta, the California Department of Parks and Recreation (PARKS) said. The ...

Highly invasive and destructive freshwater mussels are threatening to make their way to the Pacific Northwest through decorative aquarium moss balls. Earlier this month, a wholesale aquarium company ...

"These unique freshwater mussels are found nowhere else in the world but in the rivers and streams of Central Texas," said Amy Lueders, southwest regional director for the USFWS, in a statement.