Mussels also have this amazing and unusual lifecyle that includes fish as a host. Glochidia (or mussel larvae) attach themselves to the gills of fish, where they develop into juvenile mussels before ...

When Bruning, a marine biologist at Laval University in Quebec City, returned to her lab, she spotted several dozen juvenile mussels clinging to one of her specimens, an orange sponge. The ...

Fourteen months after live zebra mussels were found in Clear Lake in Manitoba, Parks Canada says it's not feasible to ...

"What's particularly significant is that the juvenile mussels found were many miles away from the nearest known breeding population and that's good news because it could help to prevent further ...

They are among the longest-lived invertebrates, surviving as long as 100 years. Their reproduction is complex and remarkable. Mussels, which cannot see, must make a lure that mimics a juvenile fish, ...

Park officials announced Tuesday that it's no longer feasible to eradicate the invasive species, which have now been found ...

They reproduce by making lures that looks like fish, crayfish or worms. When their host fishes attempt to prey upon the lures, the mussels release their fertilized eggs onto the fish’s gills. Juvenile ...

Zebra mussels appear to be here to stay in Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba, a popular boating destination for ...

Once in the water, the larvae attach to the gills of fish, where they live harmlessly until they become juvenile mussels. Once common in European rivers, numbers of thick-shelled river mussels have ...

A 26-foot humpback whale that was found deceased and entangled in commercial mussel-farming gear this week off Huntington ...

Zebra mussels appear to be here to stay in Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba, a popular boating destination for ...