Found this P. subtentus shell in a muskrat mound yesterday. Check out those conglutinates looking like some delicious black fly larvae! Great way to attract your fish host 😏

Who needs one? 🙋🏾

When the river gage shows 18,000 ft3/s at your study site after 3 weeks of nonstop rain, you look for alternative field work to keep your sanity! Thank god for labmates 🙌

Co-authoring a paper 👀 x.com/TheFigen_/stat…

Looks like a muskrat got full before getting to the glochidia of this Mucket (Actinonaias ligamentina).

Who is coming to Tuscaloosa, AL in August for the American Malacological Society meeting?!

Who did it it better!?! E. brevidens (left) and E. capsaeformis (right) putting on their best show. Come here, fishy fishy!!

How many live mussels do you see in this picture? 🤔🧐

Is anyone else out there catching absolute giants this weekend?!

Some freshwater mussels release their babies (called glochidia) in clumps (called conglutinates). The conglutinates are released in the water and mimic a prey item of a host fish. If you look really close you will see the tiny glochidia inside the conglutinate! Nature is awesome!

This never gets old! Beautiful lure display from Lampsilis sp. (most likely L. fasciola)

There are few ways to keep mollusk surveys interesting...🐊🐍🦎

We're thrilled to share our latest publication, where we delve into pathological investigation and disease assessment in Pheasantshell. I'm incredibly proud of the fantastic teamwork that made this research possible! journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

In honor of spooky season, here is a super scary female Cumberlandian combshell (Epioblasma brevidens). I bet darters tell super scary stories about these river creatures! 🎃🐟☠️

Who is your hellbender daddy? Find out here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… fb.me/3VEJito6g

A Sixth Mass Extinction alumnus.tennessee.edu/2017/sixth-mas… via @tnalumnus

How Snakes Lost Their Legs fb.me/1CHpnKnJt

For the Love of Rattlesnakes, Scrub All GPS Data from Your Nature Photos motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/… via Motherboard

New PA state amphibian....the HELLBENDER!!!

"Their natural habitat has been under attack through sediment running down into streams and filling in holes under rocks, as well as from people removing rocks or moving them to created dams or other unnatural river features." citizen-times.com/story/life/201…