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 ...

Larvae of the freshwater pearl mussel can give protection against bacterial infection Glochidium larvae of the freshwater pearl mussel attach to salmon or trout gills, where they develop and grow for ...

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 ...

Long before pollution, dams and dredging threatened freshwater mussels living in Indiana rivers and streams, the mollusks faced another devastating menace: Fashion. A nearly insatiable demand for ...

SOHO, Manhattan (PIX11) — A store in Manhattan lets you buy a mussel and then make jewelry out of the pearls that come from it. Pearl & The Beast is located at 22 Howard St. Basement in SoHo. It has ...

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’ ...

The rivers of northeast Arkansas once teemed with freshwater mollusks capable of producing pearls, which led to a huge "pearl rush" in the region in the late 1800s. The mussels had not been harvested ...

A woman celebrating her birthday at a seafood restaurant got the perfect present after finding a priceless PEARL inside a mussel. Paige Hawkins had been dining at The Quayside, in Stourport, Worcs., ...

Researchers from the University of Jyväskylä found brown trout better survived a Flavobacterium disease outbreak if the fish had larvae of freshwater pearl mussel in their gills. In another study, ...