mussel

State workers discovered golden mussels attached to equipment and buoys in the Port of Stockton last month while carrying out routine water quality tests.

In each country where the mussels have taken over, the initial introduction also appeared to be from ships — on the hulls or from ballast water release.

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.

The seabed there contains carbon-storing muds, maerl beds and horse mussel reefs which form part of a rich and complex underwater ecosystem.

I will forever be amazed by her surf-and-turf challenge dish of frog legs and mussels — simultaneously bonkers and brilliant.