It also brings the dreaded quagga mussel. The destructive aquatic invasive species infest lakes and reservoirs, typically ...

As long as humans are trading and traveling, plants and animals will be hitching lifts. The tools to track and mitigate the ...

For the gardener there is nothing more exciting than seeing that the challenging work that has been done for their plants has ...

Last year, with maritime traffic limited in the Patapsco River channel during the typical planting season, oysters grown in ...

A groundbreaking program to rescue endangered white abalone at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Lab is now at risk, as proposed ...

These spiny or slimy ocean creatures display an astonishing diversity of appearances, behaviors and lifestyles—and many are ...

Christopher Barnhart, a malacologist—or scientist who specializes in mollusks—at Missouri State ... Once mama mussel blasts the fish with all of her larvae, the tiny creatures latch onto ...

A bill increases the fines for anyone who knowingly or negligently introduces any aquatic invasive species into Montana or ...

Highly invasive mussels are making their way through North America, and Alberta is looking to keep them out with a first-of-its-kind mandatory watercraft inspection policy.From June 1 to Sept. 30, ...

The catfish may be a common freshwater catch in most lakes and other bodies of freshwater, but it is far more interesting ...

Mussels are bivalve mollusks that live on the bottom of waterways ... process that depends on a parasitic relationship between the mussels and fish. They take larvae of female mussels and place them ...