Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

Fracking is the process of getting more oil or gas from a well by injecting water into it to fracture the stone. The process produces wastewater heavily contaminated with chemicals from deep ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lemon squeezed on steamed mussels - Munro/Getty Images Cheaper than clams, but equally as tasty and packing just as much protein ...

Invasive pest management experts acknowledge eradication is likely impossible. They say the goal now should be to protect ...

In the waters of a marina near the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in England, a group of mussels are busy at work: filtering the water for microplastics. As the bivalves feed, they suck bacteria, algae, ...

Mussels are likely the sort of thing that you’d order at an old school French restaurant, but would never pick up at the store. (Maybe one time you saw a recipe asking you to “remove their beards” and ...

Colorado’s search for the hungry, invasive mussels has revealed populations along the Colorado River. Now it’s time to check ...

BOISE, Idaho — They are smaller than a finger nail, but have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage across the country. Idaho is continuing its unprecedented battle to stop quagga mussels ...

Parks and Wildlife also has plans to install a new $1.3 million dip tank to improve the decontamination of boats visiting the ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife let Coloradans know that zebra mussels have been found in a private body of water in Eagle County this month. That marked progress from the creatures' first spotted ...