and two more that it calls the pearl research institute, used for oyster breeding and research. (The farm is closed to the public.) Floating on the bay’s surface nearby was a series of large ...

When debris gets trapped in between the shells of an oyster or other mollusk, or when the animal sustains an injury, the ...

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 ...

Mother-of-pearl is the hard, silvery, internal layer of several kinds of shells, especially oysters, the large varieties of which in the Indian Seas secrete this coat of sufficient thickness to ...

The first detailed study of Australian tropical oyster reefs reveals the main species, yet to be named, is related to the Sydney rock oyster – and is just as delicious.

In New York, Dickens describes cellars serving "oysters, pretty nigh as large as cheese-plates ... and the nearby Pearl Street, originally on the waterfront, got its name from a 'midden ...

A lucky woman uncovered a pearl while dining on oysters with her daughter in small-town North Carolina. Freda Bryant made the fortunate discovery at Full Moon Oyster Bar in Morrisville - though ...

This multi-eyed oyster mascot 'Pearl' is getting international attention ... The festival, which is the largest of its kind in Canada, normally takes place in September. However due to Hurricane ...

In fact, they are some of the largest known intertidal oyster reefs ... building species were also present, including leaf oysters, pearl oysters and hairy mussels. In southern Australia, oyster ...