JEREMIAH HAAS column logo with this (place column log in 2nd stik of copy) Freshwater mussels are a group of animals that are understood far less than nearly anything else in our rivers ...

The festival is part of Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful’s Tennessee River Mussel Movement initiative, which aims to protect and bolster freshwater mussels. The initiative is a collaboration ...

Throughout the slow-flowing water, freshwater mussels act as animal engineers, building a thriving ecosystem by processing organic material and nutrients. “China is a diversity hotspot of ...

As the number of freshwater mussels continue to decline across North America, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking to designate critical habitat areas to protect the species. The service ...

A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist holds a dead spike mussel, the same species of freshwater mussel studied by researchers at Penn State. Credit: Meagan Racey/USFWS Sixty-two years ago ...

Finland saw one of its largest environmental crimes of recent years last month when a Stora Enso forestry machine destroyed thousands of endangered freshwater pearl mussels (Margaritifera ...

I felt like a scientist doing field work,” Choi said. “It was like Pokémon — you get to find these different species of mussel.” A volunteer holds a handful of freshwater mussels collected from the ...

At low tide, they spotted and collected about 120 freshwater mussels, which have become much less common in the region's rivers and streams. Freshwater mussels are bivalve mollusks, like oysters ...