Among the millions of bivalve molluscs in the Museum's collections, one specimen stands out: a large oyster shell, donated to the Museum in 1886 and containing a peculiar pearl. Rather than a ...

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 ...

Pearl farmers haul out their oyster cages in Ago Bay ... the Japanese dish of thinly sliced raw fish. "If there was a significant amount of pollution," he says, "this would have hit the other ...

Brewers then worked out that oyster shells naturally clarified a beer, much like isinglass (from the dried swim bladders of fish), and they ... humble oyster – the pearl. A natural pearl will ...

Go Fish Wine & Oyster Bar opened near the Pearl in January 2023 from Emily and Houston Carpenter, a local couple operating Little Em's, Nineteen Hyaku and Restaurant Claudine under Carpenter ...