They also have one unique characteristic that clams lack—beards. The “beards” on mussels are clumps of thin fibers that ...

Golden mussel takeovers in other countries have shown that this species can grow in stunning clumps or colonies containing as many as 80,000 to 200,000 organisms per square meter. Wildlife ...

"We're talking something perhaps [the size of] the end of your small fingernail, but take hundreds or thousands of those in dense clumps, you can already imagine the impacts that can happen just on, ...