mussel
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Supriyanto, 32, is a green mussel trader and once bought from local fishermen who harvested the shellfish offshore.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
On Wednesday, they served a mussel dish with garlic confit and serrano chili developed by his breakfast sous chef.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025
The amphipod was discovered at a depth of 2,602 meters in a mussel bed within the Galápagos Rift hydrothermal vent fields.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025
The group was especially pleased to learn that sea robins were so effective at covering up filtered mussel extract, even down to single amino acids.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2024
But then the rolling mussel hopped into the air and splashed into the blackness.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
In the pens, robots scrape algae and mussels off the nets to ensure none of it gets trapped in the salmon’s gills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Harvesting bivalves, like clams, oysters, scallops and mussels, is especially sustainable because these species do not require feed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
They also sampled starfish and mussels living on or near the submarine.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Conservationists say this and other extraordinary deep-sea snails, limpets, mussels and clams could be threatened by plans to mine valuable minerals from the deep seabed.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
No mussels were left, no limpets, no dulse.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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