An curved arrow pointing right. South Sea pearls are the largest cultured-pearl variety, sometimes reaching over 20 millimeters in diameter. The Pinctada maxima oyster can take up to five years to ...

Watch Andreia Salvador, Curator of Marine Mollusca, take a look at one of the Museum's most extraordinary and precious pearls. Among the millions of bivalve molluscs in the Museum's collections, one ...

Talk about fine dining! A man eating at the Grand Central Oyster Bar inside New York City’s Grand Central Terminal was surprised to find a valuable pearl after biting into his oyster pan roast ...

These structures act as the kidneys of the sea, cleaning the water ... including leaf oysters, pearl oysters and hairy mussels. In southern Australia, oyster reefs are critically endangered.

a pearl oyster cherished her pearl, living in harmony. But disaster struck when a blazing ship sank, poisoning the sea. Entangled in debris, she lost her treasured pearl. Desperate, she started to ...

Thanks to its ideal location between the South China Sea and the Pearl River Delta, Hong Kong has long been regarded as something of a hotspot for oyster farming, explains The Guardian ...