Over time, a range of pearl styles became available to royalty and commoners alike. During the long history of pearls, the principal oyster beds lay in the Persian Gulf, along the coasts of India ...

Nucleating an oyster. The Chinese have also begun to nucleate ... then nucleating mussels with them. "If pearl farmers can grow cultured pearls that test as naturals, the market may be in for ...

At the 2019 Grammys, Cardi B was basically dressed like an oyster. The most expensive pearl ever sold was Marie Antoinette's pendant. It sold for $32 million in a 2018 auction. But what is it that ...

An curved arrow pointing right. At Pearl Factory, customers can handpick their very own oyster. Once they've opened the oyster, they can create jewelry with their pearl. More from Entertainment At ...

The oyster or mussel slowly secretes layers of aragonite and conchiolin, materials that also make up its shell. This creates a material called nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl, which encases the ...

Maui has two species of native oysters: pearl oysters, which inspired the name of Pearl Harbor, and the native Hawaiian oyster. Native oysters are only about a couple inches large — much smaller ...