By contrast, the pearls sometimes labeled as “Chinese akoyas”, “baby akoyas”, or “freshwater akoyas (AK)” are freshwater ...
Off the coast of Japan’s verdant Saikai National Park, the Kujukushima Islands lie scattered amid a sprawling network of narrow inlets. Their name literally translates as “99 islands,” though there ...
FORT PIERCE, Fla. -- Florida's next cash crop might be pea-sized pink pearls grown in the brown bodies of queen conchs. Two scientists at Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Oceanographic ...