The western ridged mussel plays a crucial role in keeping rivers in the Western United States clean. However, thanks to ...

The tons of discarded mussel shells generated by the seafood industry may be organic, but they're still very slow to biodegrade in landfills. They may soon find new life, however, sandblasting jeans ...

In Massachusetts, common blue mussels may not have the star power of Wellfleet oysters or the charisma of quahogs. But like all shellfish they play an important role in marine ecosystems. Mussels are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long before pollution, dams and dredging threatened freshwater mussels living in Indiana rivers and streams, the mollusks faced ...

Researchers at the American Museum of Natural History 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 ...

UC San Diego scientists reported Monday that increased ocean acidity is weakening California mussel shells along the Pacific Coast, a result of rising levels of human-produced carbon dioxide. The ...

A new study suggests that 6000-years-ago people across Europe shared a cultural tradition of using freshwater mussel shells to craft ornaments. An international team of researchers, including ...

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 ...

California mussel shells collected off the coast of Washington state in the 1970s are, on average, 32 percent thicker than modern specimens, according to a new study published by UChicago biologists.

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