SPIRIT LAKE, Ia (KTIV) - Consistent spring rainfall has water rushing through the Spirit Lake spillway, where visitors have ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

California has launched a $200,000 competition to find innovative ways to prevent invasive mussels from spreading through U.S. waterways. The "Halt the Hitchhiker" challenge seeks safer, more ...

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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 ...

Caption: Alberta is upping efforts to keep invasive mussels out of the province's water bodies. Why? Because, as a new report outlines, allowing waters to become contaminated could cost an estimated ...