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

What's inside a clam? A retractable foot, a siphon for sucking up water, powerful muscles, and, sometimes, a pearl. And you thought oysters were fancy. Following is the transcript of the video.

Pearls are made by marine oysters and freshwater mussels as a natural defence ... Nacre can form naturally around almost any irritant that gets inside the shell, creating some very unique and precious ...

A natural pearl will form in an oyster when a foreign object, like a grain of sand, gets inside the shell. To protect itself, the oyster will coat the unwelcome visitor with layers of nacre ...

Uma Thurman's dress had over 3,000 white pearls sewn to it, while Rihanna's pope-inspired outfit was encrusted in pearls. At the 2019 Grammys, Cardi B was basically dressed like an oyster.

Oysters are the primary producers of pearls, clams and mussels can also ... This ligament keeps the valves open, allowing the oyster to feed. Inside the shell, the oyster has several parts ...

Japan's akoya oysters have been preëminent among cultured pearls ever since Kokichi Mikimoto first established the industry in the early part of this century. But since 1994, something has been ...