Freshwater mussels play an important role in keeping the Great Lakes healthy, but experts say native mussels in Michigan are ...

“They like small mussels because their shells are easier to crush and they’re easier to digest,” Bootsma said. “So we think what’s happening is that those rocks that we scraped just can’t get ...

First, the invaders claimed Lake St. Clair, on the border of Michigan and Canada. By the early 1990s, they’d taken hold in the Great Lakes, then made their way into the Mississippi River Basin. The ...

They are only about the size of a fingernail, these miniature mollusks whose common name comes from the black stripes on the razor-sharp shells formed from calcium and other minerals the animal they ...

PARK RAPIDS, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has confirmed the presence of zebra mussels, an aquatic invasive species, in Fish Hook Lake north of Park Rapids. In October, the DNR ...

REALLY HAPPENING BENEATH THE WAVES. THEY JUST SEEM TO BE BURNING OFF THE ROCKS DURING THE SUMMERTIME. THIS USED TO BE COVERED WITH MUSSELS AND NOW THERE JUST AREN’T THAT MANY. BRIAN HELMUTH HAS ...