Freshwater mussels, also known as clams, are unique animals. Mussels have two hard, external shells and soft tissue inside. They also have only one foot! The movement of mussels is limited. Most ...

We funded a natural history poster featuring the extinct freshwater mussels of the American Southeast to increase awareness and motivate actions to save the surviving species. Check out our 230-foot ...

GAITHERSBURG, MD. -- "Nature didn't make mussel glue for man's instant gratification," says Herbert Waite, the marine biochemist who first isolated adhesive protein from the foot of the common blue ...

and one-square meter of surface can host up to 200,000 mussels. Ten square feet of golden mussels can remove plankton from 1½ million gallons of water per month, starving fish and damaging fisheries.