But since 1994, something has been killing off the akoyas of Ago Bay, the heart of Japan's cultured-pearl business, and elsewhere in the country. Experts attribute the initial oyster deaths in ...

For at least 164,000 years, oysters have been part of the human diet, but people have been finding pearls in oysters for much ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...