A Central Michigan University graduate student could upend some of our assumptions about an important freshwater mollusk after playing in the mud. Aaron Vlasak was updating a 40-year inventory of ...

In Massachusetts, common blue mussels may not have the star power of Wellfleet oysters or the charisma of quahogs. But like all shellfish they play an important role in marine ecosystems. Mussels are ...

What has black-and-white stripes, likes to settle on rocks, and has two D-shaped shells? That's right: zebra mussels. Otherwise known as the invasive species that's forcing out native mussel species, ...

When people think about invasive species, they often conjure images of large feral pigs or Burmese pythons in the Florida ...

The tons of discarded mussel shells generated by the seafood industry may be organic, but they're still very slow to biodegrade in landfills. They may soon find new life, however, sandblasting jeans ...

Seafood experts compare these popular bivalves and explain whether you can substitute one for the other.

With names such as Susquehanna elk-toe, squaw-foot, eastern floater and yellow lampshade, one might think they had visited a zany shoe store, an old-fashioned ice cream parlor and antique furniture ...