Quagga Mussel is Eating the Great Lakes "Doughnut"
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 - 13:21
in Earth & Climate
Something has been gobbling up a "doughnut" of phytoplankton in southern Lake Michigan, and it looks as though the culprit is the quagga mussel, a European mollusk about the size of a fat lima bean.
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