Meet Krystal Chen, the 23-year-old owner and founder of Pearl & The Beast, the Soho jewelry store that specializes in fishing for mussels in exchange for pearls. If you want pearl jewelry from this ...

If you want pearl jewelry from this Soho shop, you’re going to have to use some mussel. At Pearl & the Beast, shoppers can go fishing for mussels and shuck them open themselves for shiny pearls to ...

Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have found that the larvae of freshwater pearl mussel survive best in the original salmon fish population of their home river. The freshwater pearl ...

ARKHANGELSK, August 8. /TASS/. Russian scientists reconstructed how pearl mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera) settled after the glaciation in Europe and North America and analyzed the species’ ...

In the vast network of rivers and tributaries that make up the Pearl River Basin in southern China, the water is naturally filtered by living creatures. Throughout the slow-flowing water, freshwater ...

A remarkable freshwater pearl, the largest discovered in Scotland for over 400 years, is now on display at the National Museum of Scotland (NMS). Named the Abernethy Pearl after its finder, William ...

ARKHANGELSK, November 29. /TASS/. Specialists of the Laverov Federal Research Center for the Arctic Integrated Studies (the Russian Academy of Sciences) discovered a new population of freshwater pearl ...

One of the largest freshwater pearls found in Scottish history is heading to auction for the first time, six decades on from its discovery. Known as the Abernethy Pearl, it is expected to command ...