Biologists are racing to save America’s freshwater mussels—the water-filtering keystone species that once filled the ...
Kai Baucom, a graduate research assistant at Pittsburg State University, lifts a handful of rocks from the bottom of the Spring River and checks for any mussels. The fish and rare mussels hiding in ...
The first adult zebra mussels have been found in the Colorado River near Grand Junction, following increased testing and detection of the invasive species in Colorado. Previously, Colorado Parks and ...
A lake whitefish swam into a blue expanse, its streamlined form moving slowly, gracefully in an action honed by thousands of years of evolution. It was a native species traveling through Great Lakes ...