Freshwater mussels are the kind most people don't even know exist. They live for decades—more than a century in some cases.

Test results from a record number of invasive mussels found on two boats during an early January inspection show the mussels may have been alive when they were intercepted at the Washington/Idaho ...

Freshwater mussels have been dying out in North America, and the people who study them still don't know why. The continent ...

Zebra mussels first appeared in Lake Champlain almost a decade ago, catching rides into North American waters in the ballast of transoceanic vessels. Since then, researchers have been frantically ...

Emily Longman (left) and lab technician Sarah Merolla (right) preparing to sample the mussel bed community at Dillon Beach, California. Credit: Eric Sanford, UC Davis A mussel bed along Northern ...

Replacement of the I-74 bridge over the Mississippi River is estimated to cost $1.2 billion. Of that, an estimated $2.5 million is being and will be spent to save and relocate fresh water mussels ...