The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed Friday to list the pyramid pigtoe mussel as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The Fish and Wildlife Service says the mussel was once ...
The thin-shelled oddity was found by wildlife management staff at Geneva State Forest, near the state’s Florida border. Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division photo Nature threw a curve ...
Long before pollution, dams and dredging threatened freshwater mussels living in Indiana rivers and streams, the mollusks faced another devastating menace: Fashion. A nearly insatiable demand for ...
(Blacksburg, Va.) -- In the early 1900s, there were 42 species of freshwater mussels in the North Fork of the Holston River in Southwest Virginia. There were 33 downstream of Saltville. Now there are ...