What has black-and-white stripes, likes to settle on rocks, and has two D-shaped shells? That's right: zebra mussels. Otherwise known as the invasive species that's forcing out native mussel species, ...

When people think about invasive species, they often conjure images of large feral pigs or Burmese pythons in the Florida ...

A new study has found another negative effect of invasive zebra mussels in lakes: higher levels of mercury in fish. Researchers from the University of Minnesota, the U.S. Geological Survey and other ...

Discoveries of the invasive and damaging zebra mussels have been piling up in Western Colorado, with recent detections in Eagle County, the Colorado River, and other waterways. Zebra mussels — and ...

New rounds of samples for the voracious creatures keep turning up positive, complicating containment The Colorado River is now officially “positive” for invasive zebra mussels for longer stretches in ...

I read Adam Jensen’s article on zebra mussels (Jan. 22) with alarm and concern. I am not a scientist or an alarmist, but I do recognize a potential ecosystem catastrophe when I see one. About eight ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife let Coloradans know that zebra mussels have been found in a private body of water in Eagle County this month. That marked progress from the creatures' first spotted ...

For years, Lake Vermilion and Lake Kabetogama seemed special. As Minnesota’s other large and heavily fished lakes fell one-by-one to zebra mussel infestations, the two sprawling wooded giants in ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) confirmed that the Colorado River has tested positive for Zebra mussels. CPW said that they have found Zebra mussel veligers— a ...

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