Long before pollution, dams and dredging threatened freshwater mussels living in Indiana rivers and streams, the mollusks faced another devastating menace: Fashion. A nearly insatiable demand for ...

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 ...

Dive into your next bowl of this delicious shellfish armed with these expert tips. Mussels should be alive until cooked; if a shell doesn't close after tapping, discard it. Use your fingers, a fork, ...

Researchers have found that over the last 120 years, the porosity -- or small-scale holes -- in mussel shells along the East Coast of the United States has increased, potentially due to warming waters ...

Throughout Lent, many practicing Christians forego eating meat on Fridays. This custom continues until Easter Sunday as a way ...

About eight years ago, an invasive species called quagga mussel shells started clogging up London’s water pipes and tunnels. Since then, Thames Water, the utility company that’s responsible for the ...

Officials in Minnesota made a worrying discovery in a lake outside St. Paul, Minnesota, of zebra mussel larvae, one of the ...

Colorado’s search for the hungry, invasive mussels has revealed populations along the Colorado River. Now it’s time to check private ponds.

Most people haven’t cooked many — if any — mussels in their lifetimes. Just the sight of that little cluster of blue-black shells is sometimes enough to send one scurrying back toward more familiar ...

Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...