In Massachusetts, common blue mussels may not have the star power of Wellfleet oysters or the charisma of quahogs. But like all shellfish they play an important role in marine ecosystems. Mussels are ...

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 ...

Researchers at the American Museum of Natural History have found that over the last 120 years, the porosity—or small-scale holes—in mussel shells along the East Coast of the United States has ...

John Boepple settled in Muscatine, Iowa, where he produced pearl buttons made from freshwater mussel shells. His innovations ...

An EHU study has found a way of using mussel shells, which usually end up on landfills, in the textile industry Indeed, the treatments used to achieve that worn look of denim, which is so ...