Researchers have discovered that 6000-years-ago people across Europe shared a cultural tradition of using freshwater mussel shells to craft ornaments. A new study suggests that 6000-years-ago people ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long before pollution, dams and dredging threatened freshwater mussels living in Indiana rivers and streams, the mollusks faced ...

Elevated concentrations of strontium, an element associated with oil and gas wastewaters, have accumulated in the shells of freshwater mussels downstream from fracking wastewater disposal sites.

However, these simple mollusks may hold decades of data detailing the historic conditions of Northwest waterways, such as the Little Spokane or Snake rivers, embedded in their shells. Earlier this ...

A new online resource combines data from 45 different natural history collections to provide easy-to-use information on America’s threatened freshwater mussels Jack Tamisiea The National Museum of ...

What can the species abundances and ages of the freshwater mussel shells tell us about the mussel population in the Ohio River through time? What can the species abundances and ages of the freshwater ...

May 7 (UPI) --Some 6,000 years ago, the freshwater mussel served as the ornamental shell of choice for prehistoric craftspeople. When researchers analyzed ornamental shells from across prehistoric ...

BRASHER FALLS, N.Y.–As the snow melted this spring, and the sun slowly warmed the waters of the St. Regis River, freshwater clams crept from the sands and substrata where they burrow while winter ...

North American freshwater mussels were first recognized for their commercial value in the 1800s by the American button industry. The mussel’s pearly shell was used for buttons while the meaty interior ...

A new study suggests that 6000-years-ago people across Europe shared a cultural tradition of using freshwater mussel shells to craft ornaments. An international team of researchers, including ...