What's inside a clam? A retractable foot, a siphon for sucking up water, powerful muscles, and, sometimes, a pearl. And you thought oysters were fancy. Following is the transcript of the video.

But since 1994, something has been killing off the akoyas of Ago Bay, the heart of Japan's cultured-pearl business, and elsewhere in the country. Experts attribute the initial oyster deaths in ...

An curved arrow pointing right. At Pearl Factory, customers can handpick their very own oyster. Once they've opened the oyster, they can create jewelry with their pearl. More from Entertainment At ...

The second one, well, is a glove with an oyster set in it, with a baseball that is supposed to look like a pearl inside the oyster. But to some who saw it online, the oyster resembles part of the ...

Pearls are made by marine oysters and freshwater mussels as a ... into a mollusc to promote the production of mother-of-pearl. Nacre can form naturally around almost any irritant that gets inside the ...