Long before pollution, dams and dredging threatened freshwater mussels living in Indiana rivers and streams, the mollusks faced another devastating menace: Fashion. A nearly insatiable demand for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. South Dakota native John Latendresse was on a cross-country road trip in 1949 when he found himself at Kentucky Lake in Tennessee.

If you want pearl jewelry from this Soho shop, you’re going to have to use some mussel. At Pearl & the Beast, shoppers can go fishing for mussels and shuck them open themselves for shiny pearls to ...

The rivers of northeast Arkansas once teemed with freshwater mollusks capable of producing pearls, which led to a huge "pearl rush" in the region in the late 1800s. The mussels had not been harvested ...

With the pearl rush of 1864, farmers abandoned their fields, merchants shuttered their stores and the Winooski River teemed with neighbors and strangers as many sought to strike it rich in the waters ...