Indeed, pearls from freshwater mussels lie at the center of the liveliest activity in pearling today. Natural freshwater pearls occur in mussels for the same reason that saltwater pearls occur in ...

Pearl farming offers lucrative returns, with potential earnings of up to Rs 20 lakh per batch from a modest investment.

A mom who found a rare pearl inside a bowl of mussels at her birthday dinner has had it made into a "beautiful" piece of ...

In the assessment, the experts have identified three areas where first of all the pearl mussel requires protection ARKHANGELSK, February 6. /TASS/. Specialists of the Laverov Federal Research ...

A new population of critically endangered freshwater pearl mussels has been found on a River Spey tributary. They were found by a graduate on a Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) placement scheme who ...

He had a bucket sitting on the floor he would put them in.” Turning mussels into pearls According to the U.S. Department of Interior 1906 Mineral Resource Guide, the value of the production of ...

Dead pearl mussels from a previous poaching incident in Scotland Police have appealed for information after 80 freshwater pearl mussels were killed in a poaching incident on the River Spey in the ...

The problem is that in England and Wales, adult freshwater pearl mussels do not get about much and their sex life is not what it used to be. As a result the youngest mussels are middle-aged ...

It is believed the Abernethy Pearl, affectionately known as Little Willie, could have been growing in its mussel for more ...

“Its coastal waters are home to the European lobster and brown crab, while the tidal river is home to the freshwater pearl mussel, Atlantic salmon, sea trout and European eel,” the Labour MP ...

A mussel bed along Northern California's Dillon Beach is as healthy and biodiverse as it was about 80 years ago, when two young students surveyed it shortly before Pearl Harbor was attacked and ...

A retractable foot, a siphon for sucking up water, powerful muscles, and, sometimes, a pearl. And you thought ... Like oysters and mussels, clams are bivalves, a kind of mollusk that's encased ...