mussel
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The "Walcot Wiggle" is taking place within the headwaters of the River Clun - parts of which support internationally important species like the freshwater pearl mussel.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
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
She takes two mussel shells and grates away the hair on the right side of my head down to the scalp.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
He said he learned how to hand rake mussels during the film, although admitted they were unusable by the end of the day.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Fish, mobile snails, sea urchins, and bivalves such as clams, oysters, and mussels all require faster metabolisms to support movement and, in many cases, predatory lifestyles.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
The Appalachian springsnail hasn’t been documented in Washington County since the ’90s—not that many people have been looking—and the mussels live in the Potomac River, separated from the warehouse by Semple Run and Conococheague Creek.
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2026
Hutchings uses scallops, large shrimp and fish fillets, but other options like oysters, lobster tails, crabs, mussels and clams are perfectly acceptable.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2026
The grainy rocks, the swaying pines, the cascade of stubborn blue mussels, the water splashing up green and streaming back white—they were all the same, as if the frock coats had never been there.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
