Come October, Phil Cruver plans to be seeding the first-ever offshore mussel farm in the U.S. Eight months later, the CEO of Catalina Sea Ranch hopes to be harvesting the first batch of mussels, which ...

Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

We left the dock at San Pedro just as the dawn light broke over a slate grey sky, a glassy black sea. Our craft, the Enterprise, a 72-foot-long World War II-era military grade landing vessel, was ...

Scientists have assembled the 1.64 gigabytes genome of a deep-sea mussel, which is roughly equivalent to 50 percent of the size of human genome. This is the first decoded genome among all deep-sea ...

A joint research led by Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has assembled the 1.64 gigabytes genome of a deep-sea mussel, which is ...

Catalina Sea Ranch has finally grown some mussels. The company’s aquaculture farm a few miles off Los Angeles County’s southern coast harvested its first batch in mid-July. The initial crop was three ...

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At asphalt volcanoes in the Gulf of Mexico that spew oil, gas and tar, mussels and sponges live in symbiosis with bacteria providing them with food. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine ...

That's the number of aquatic non-native species that have made their way into the Great Lakes as of 2023—at least the ones that scientists have identified. About one-third of the species have ...

That's the number of aquatic non-native species that have made their way into the Great Lakes as of 2023 – at least the ones that scientists have identified. About one-third of the species have ...

When people think about invasive species, they often conjure images of large feral pigs or Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades wreaking havoc on the environment. They’re not necessarily wrong.