Mother-of-pearl, the iridescent coating inside oyster shells, once formed the foundation of a thriving button industry in the U.S. What is now the United States became famous for two products.

Pearls are made by marine oysters and freshwater mussels as a natural defence against an irritant such as a parasite entering their shell or damage to their fragile body. The oyster or mussel slowly ...

Krzemnicki and Laurent E. Cartier concluded the so-called pearl, among others they observed, was "fake" and "unambiguously" a bead "cut and polished from Tridacna shell." Snopes contacted ...

Pearls are the result of a mollusc's reaction to irritants such as parasites that enter its shell. Although model pearls are perfectly round and smooth, in reality they come in a huge number of shapes ...

Natural pearls form when some kind of irritant, usually a small organism, makes its way into the shell of a mollusk like an oyster or a mussel. To protect itself from the invader, the mollusk ...

What is it? Well, many of the manicures feature this ethereal, pearly, opalescent finish, a bit like the mother-of-pearl-insides of a mollusc shell. So there, I’m calling it: shell nails are ...

Pearl barley does not need to be soaked before use.

While most gemstones are extracted from earth in rough forms that require cutting and polishing before being set into jewelry, pearls emerge straight from their shells ready to be made into any ...

That's right, oysters aren't the only pearl producers out there. Clams, too, will form these shimmering clumps to trap irritants that enter their shells. In fact, a fisherman once found a 34 ...

He surveys the child images, some of which are decorated in lagang, silvery mother of pearl flowers carved from nautilus shells. “When it comes to Santo Niño devotion,” he says ...

The seeds have a dark green color and are surrounded by a yellowish-white shell. If you’ve ever carved a pumpkin, you may ...

This other laborer touched the hearts of netizens for his determination in selling his hand-carved shells around the vicinity of the Basilica Minore Del Santo Niño. Gaudioso Cabaral, 78 ...