Like many sea creatures, mussels along Oregon’s coastline are struggling. Their population took a sudden nose dive this summer, and researchers aren’t sure what’s behind the die-off. This mystery is ...

(CNN) — The devastating heat wave that ravaged British Columbia last week is being blamed for a massive die-off of mussels, clams and other marine animals that live on the beaches of Western Canada.

The creatures live in holes in wood at the bottom of the ocean. Wu Q, Lin Y-T, Qiu J-W, Xu MY, Xing BP (2025) Zoosystematics and Evolution When a tree falls into a river, flows downstream and hits the ...

Most people haven’t cooked many — if any — mussels in their lifetimes. Just the sight of that little cluster of blue-black shells is sometimes enough to send one scurrying back toward more familiar ...