Zebra mussels were brought to the Great Lakes in ship ballast water during the 1980s. They were joined shortly after by Quagga mussels in the early 90s. Today, both are among the most serious aquatic ...

There’s a new aquatic invasive species on the watch-list for boaters looking to enter Montana waterways this year. Montana ...

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, ...

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 ...

The once green-hued waters of Cass Lake have become gin clear, a consequence of the dime-sized filter-feeders’ prodigious capacity to hoover up plankton and reproduce at astonishing rates. Credit: ...

This is a bronze, two blade propeller on a stainless steel shaft on a 36 foot sailboat, covered in zebra mussels.© iStock.com/JeffCaughey According to the University ...

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 ...

State officials may have solved the puzzle of how zebra mussels got into the Colorado River. On July 3, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials discovered a large number of adult zebra mussels in a ...

A new bill making its way through the federal legislature aims to stop the spread of invasive aquatic species including zebra mussels in the Colorado River and other western United States waterways.

While detections of the highly invasive and destructive zebra mussels have stacked up in Colorado this year, Colorado Parks and Wildlife is starting to answer critical questions about the infestation.

Biologists are racing to save America’s freshwater mussels—the water-filtering keystone species that once filled the ...

The Idaho State Department of Agriculture has opened up watercraft inspection stations across the state for the 2026 season.