An invasive species capable of wiping out entire aquatic ecosystems and causing millions of dollars in damage to infrastructure has been found for the first time in the Colorado River, the most ...

While detections of the highly invasive and destructive zebra mussels have stacked up in Colorado this year, Colorado Parks and Wildlife is starting to answer critical questions about the infestation.

Water managers and state wildlife officials last year hoped the discovery of a microscopic zebra mussel larva in the Colorado River was a one-time event, not a sign of a larger problem lurking beneath ...

OMAHA - It was clear at Tuesday's first meeting on the infestation of zebra mussels at Zorinsky Lake that possible solutions could provoke hard feelings, even despair, among those who love the jewel ...

While invasive zebra mussels were first detected in Colorado in 2022, increased sampling and inspections led to additional discoveries across the Western Slope in 2025, with the species found ...

What has black-and-white stripes, likes to settle on rocks, and has two D-shaped shells? That's right: zebra mussels. Otherwise known as the invasive species that's forcing out native mussel species, ...

First, the invaders claimed Lake St. Clair, on the border of Michigan and Canada. By the early 1990s, they’d taken hold in the Great Lakes, then made their way into the Mississippi River Basin. The ...