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 ...

We’ve all heard, or read, about pearl button factories located years ago in many towns along the River, including Montrose. We haven’t learned so much about the people who ...

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 ...

The adage of only eating oysters in months that end in R no longer holds true as advances in aquaculture have made farmed shellfish available and safe to eat year-round. However, in the case of ...

Shelby Township — It took only minutes for one of the fatmucket mussels tucked into the Stony Creek streambed to nestle into its new home. The small creature cracked open its shell and extended a ...

What native freshwater mussels tell us about the health of the Willamette River. Native freshwater mussels are environmental superheroes that filter rivers across North America, but their future is ...

A new online resource combines data from 45 different natural history collections to provide easy-to-use information on America’s threatened freshwater mussels Jack Tamisiea The National Museum of ...

CEDAR FALLS - Broken mussel shells litter the shores of the Cedar River that wind along the Rotary Reserve property. The shattered white shells, likely left behind when the floodwaters receded, are ...

By Korean Food Promotion Institute Light, briny and gently spicy, Honghaptang is a classic Korean clear soup often enjoyed as ...