Animals that disappeared from some rivers because of pollution, dams and overharvesting are getting a new lease on life that ...

Discoveries of the invasive and damaging zebra mussels have been piling up in Western Colorado, with recent detections in Eagle County, the Colorado River and other waterways. Zebra mussels — and ...

"Zebra clogging mussels have the ability to latch onto really anything, any kind of substrate material, and really clog things up," Brandon Ransom, Recreation Manager for Denver Water said. "They are ...

Flowing over nutrient-rich limestone rock that fueled a diverse assemblage of species, Abrams Creek was once one of the most ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - In August, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) confirmed that zebra mussels have infested five different areas along the Western Slope. CPW said with the recent ...

The creatures live in holes in wood at the bottom of the ocean. Wu Q, Lin Y-T, Qiu J-W, Xu MY, Xing BP (2025) Zoosystematics and Evolution When a tree falls into a river, flows downstream and hits the ...

When I think of mussels (the shellfish, not the gym-rat kind), I think of the ocean. Seagulls wheeling overhead, the gross but nostalgic smell of seaweed, maybe of wine and butter on a Friday summer ...