Meet Krystal Chen, the 23-year-old owner and founder of Pearl & The Beast, the Soho jewelry store that specializes in fishing for mussels in exchange for pearls. If you want pearl jewelry from this ...

Eight mussel species were recently declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, including one native to Illinois. Staff The Bellingham Herald file The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

If you have spent time boating or fishing in freshwater, there is a good chance you have encountered a pearly mussel. Elliptical in shape, with iridescent inner shells, humans have appreciated the ...

WARTBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — A rare, endangered species of mussel has been newly discovered in the Obed River in Morgan County, the National Park Service announced on Tuesday. According to the NPS, the ...

Critically endangered freshwater pearl mussels have been discovered living in two Scottish lochs. Scientists said the protected species, which is vulnerable to pollution and poaching, had previously ...

Here lies the green-blossom pearly mussel. It was some millions of years old. The freshwater mussel, which had a greenish-brown shell marked by thin stripes, spent its time clinging to riverbeds, ...

Larvae of the freshwater pearl mussel can give protection against bacterial infection Glochidium larvae of the freshwater pearl mussel attach to salmon or trout gills, where they develop and grow for ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently declared 21 species extinct, including an environmentally significant one previously found in the Bluegrass State. The tubercled-blossom pearly mussel was ...