The golden mussel threatens to disrupt California's surface water delivery system, from the Sacramento San Joaquin River ...

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The animals are known to wreak havoc on infrastructure and aquatic habitats.

NEW ORLEANS— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect the Alabama hickorynut in the Mobile Basin as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The agency also proposed to protect ...

Zebra mussels were brought to the Great Lakes in ship ballast water during the 1980s. They were joined shortly after by Quagga mussels in the early 90s. Today, both are among the most serious aquatic ...

View of Lake Memphremagog from a hill near Mansonville, Eastern Townships, Quebec. Photo by Kevstan/Wikimedia Commons Scientists have found invasive zebra mussels in Vermont’s section of Lake ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee’s rivers and streams are among the most biodiverse freshwater systems in the world, but one of their most important inhabitants is increasingly at risk. Freshwater mussels ...

Solstice Creek mussels like these can only be found in one Piedmont stream. North Carolina biologists have discovered a new freshwater mussel that’s only found in a short stretch of a Piedmont stream.

Seafood experts compare these popular bivalves and explain whether you can substitute one for the other.