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.