Nature has a lot to offer to humans. Most precious jewelry is made from metals and stones buried deep within the Earth’s surface but the discovery of these rare jewels is not just limited to land. The ...

Mollusks maintain the symmetry of their pearls by adjusting the thickness of each layer of shimmering nacre. If one layer of the pearl’s nacre is thinner, the next layer is thicker and will balance ...

For centuries, researchers have puzzled over how oysters grow stunningly symmetrical, perfectly round pearls around irregularly shaped grains of sand or bits of debris. Now a team has shown that ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. A natural pearl in an oyster is one of nature’s most remarkable and rare achievements. In ...

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