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 ...

But as it turns out, a foot is just one of the many bizarre features you'll find inside a clam. Like oysters and mussels, clams are bivalves, a kind of mollusk that's encased in a shell made of ...

Their experiments revealed that these proteins exhibit adhesion energy more than three times greater than widely recognized wet-adhesive proteins, such as mefp-5 (mussel foot protein) and suckerin ...

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 ...

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.

Staff Writer  About five minutes after putting on waders and pulling rocks and wood from about two feet of water near the Sand Point Beach public boat access, Minnesota ...