GENOA — Megan Bradley has devoted her professional life to studying mussels. Now she’s embarking on perhaps her most important research project — to discover whether the freshwater shellfish are ...

Over 80,000 years ago, Neanderthals fed themselves on mussels, fish and other marine life. The first evidence has been found by an international team in the cave of Figueira Brava in Portugal. The ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife deploys divers to check for highly invasive quagga mussels on the bottom of boats in Lake Powell, Arizona in 2013. (Kim Martin/U.S. Fish and Wildlife) Officials in Idaho say ...

Officials in Idaho are trying to keep quagga mussels like these mussels found in Lake Mead, Nevada, from taking over the Snake River in Idaho. (Courtesy of Dave Britton/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) ...

Last week I wrote a little ditty about North America's lampsilis mussels, which do unbelievable impressions of fish. And why would they? So that real fish attack them, busting loose clouds of mussel ...

PARK RAPIDS, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has confirmed the presence of zebra mussels, an aquatic invasive species, in Fish Hook Lake north of Park Rapids. In October, the DNR ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Freshwater aquatic species are in sharp decline around the world and the South West global biodiversity hotspot in Australia is no ...

Fry the onions and carrots in oil then add fish bones, coat them in the oil then add the garlic, tomatoes, bay leaves and wine. Allow to boil for 2 minutes then add the water and bring back to the ...

At a glance, mussels seem uninteresting. Freshwater mussels — clams — look like rocks, and they lie partly buried in streambeds, out of sight and out of mind. Yet these aquatic paperweights have one ...