Lapping green waters fringe the Kujukushima Islands off the coast of Sasebo in Nagasaki. Fields of pearl oysters sleep just beneath their surface. The shell beds are farmed by Tasaki, the Japanese ...

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 ...

The Chesapeake Baysox, like every affiliated minor league baseball team, devises an 'alternate identity' that principally ...

[Photo/Xinhua] HAIKOU — In the waters of a southern Chinese island, scores of palm-sized pearl oysters hang tidily on the breeding cages. These oysters, scientifically known as Pinctada maxima ...

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

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 ...

In response, the mantle secretes layers of nacre, the same material that forms the oyster's shell, around the irritant. Over time, these layers accumulate, creating a pearl. The nacre layers are ...

Pearl made her debut on the March 5 episode of The Masked Singer Season 13 as a member of Group B. The sultry sea jewel's ...

Pearl & The Oysters – Juliette Pearl Davis (Juju) and Joachim Polack (Jojo) – met on their first day of high school in Paris, and have been together ever since. Their creative and romantic ...

Oyster Diving, the UK’s premier PADI scuba diving and travel centre, is thrilled to announce the addition of the M/Y White ...