The mussel men were after the mother-of-pearl layers found inside the shells, and factories sprang up in communities including Mishawaka, Lawrenceburg, Leavenworth, Madison and Shoals to feed the ...

New research shows that mussels from several East Coast locations, though not yet Massachusetts, have shells speckled with tiny holes — far more than the mussels of yesteryear.

While researching these mussel shells is new to Hegg, he's previously studied waterbody climate conditions using data from the New Zealand snapper's otoliths, or ear bones. Described in his ...

Dozens of mussel varieties flourished in streams and river beds in what is now Indiana. There, the mussels lived mostly undisturbed by humans until the early 1900s.