Kit Paulsen plunges her hand into a stream of cold water. She pulls up a yellow leaf and draws it closer to the camera, pointing to several brownish-black specks. The effects of New Zealand mud snails ...

An invasive species has been detected in Four Mile Creek in Grand Traverse County. “Adopt a Stream” volunteers found New Zealand Mud Snails in the creek back in June. They’re about an eighth of an ...

MANCELONA, MI -- Dave Mahan was in his office when two undergraduate students walked in with bad news. Alison Goetz and Jessica Tinklenberg had been analyzing samples of macro invertebrate organisms ...

The mud snail is a literal freak of nature. With three sets of chromosomes instead of two. It has the ability to clone itself, meaning it would take only one snail to infect an entire stream. The ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — In August, Montana FWP found New Zealand mud snails at a private fish hatchery in Hamilton, the hatchery is under quarantine by FWP until all the snails are removed. The following ...

GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- An invasive species of snails is in Grand Traverse County. The discovery that’s now causing concern for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources was ...

Divers found invasive New Zealand mud snails along the bottom of Lake Tahoe. It’s the first time the species has been detected in the Tahoe Basin. See more in the video above. Divers found invasive ...

A smartphone app that enables city staff to instantly report when they find a fast-spreading invasive snail in Bellevue streams has earned the city a national technology award. A smartphone app that ...

Although smaller than a grain of rice, just one New Zealand mud snail can wreak havoc on an entire body of water, as seen with Capitol Lake in Olympia. Discovered in the lake in 2009, the invasive ...

New Zealand mud snails in a running stream in central Pa. (Edward Levri/ Pennsylvania State University-Altoona) Biologists led by the University of Iowa have discovered an invasive species of tiny ...

MARSHFIELD -- This fall I signed up for a Lifelong Learning course — "Coastal Explorations with Mass. Audubon" — at the Marshfield Senior Center. It was full of surprises, opened up a new world for ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. It seems ironic that a creature that spends its day licking the mud can look ...