Byssal threads bind a colony of mussels together — they're gregarious animals and often grow in dense clusters. That tendency, however, can be their undoing. When overcrowding sets in, the mussels ...
PHILADELPHIA – Water tanks line a room in this city’s Water Works on the bank of the Schuylkill River. Inside are small fish that are hosts to tiny organisms that researchers in the nation’s sixth ...
Plastic pollution poses a threat to marine wildlife. The plastic bags, bottles and straws that we see strewn across beaches have long been identified as a danger. But tiny fragments of plastic—called ...
Beneath the peaceful surface of Cockburn Sound (Derbal Nara), south of Perth, millions of tiny marine engineers are hard at work. A project is harnessing the remarkable abilities of the humble mussel ...
Plastic pollution poses a threat to marine wildlife. The plastic bags, bottles and straws that we see strewn across beaches have long been identified as a danger. But tiny fragments of plastic – ...