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 ...
Researchers have discovered that 6000-years-ago people across Europe shared a cultural tradition of using freshwater mussel shells to craft ornaments. A new study suggests that 6000-years-ago people ...
Elevated concentrations of strontium, an element associated with oil and gas wastewaters, have accumulated in the shells of freshwater mussels downstream from fracking wastewater disposal sites.
However, these simple mollusks may hold decades of data detailing the historic conditions of Northwest waterways, such as the Little Spokane or Snake rivers, embedded in their shells. Earlier this ...
A new online resource combines data from 45 different natural history collections to provide easy-to-use information on America’s threatened freshwater mussels Jack Tamisiea The National Museum of ...
What can the species abundances and ages of the freshwater mussel shells tell us about the mussel population in the Ohio River through time? What can the species abundances and ages of the freshwater ...
May 7 (UPI) --Some 6,000 years ago, the freshwater mussel served as the ornamental shell of choice for prehistoric craftspeople. When researchers analyzed ornamental shells from across prehistoric ...
A new study suggests that 6000-years-ago people across Europe shared a cultural tradition of using freshwater mussel shells to craft ornaments. An international team of researchers, including ...
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