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.

A great irony of pearl history is that the least ... cut small slits into the mantle tissue inside both shells, and insert small pieces of live mantle tissue from another mussel into those slits.

A mom who found a rare pearl inside a bowl of mussels at her birthday dinner has ... When people have found pearls in oysters ...

Pearls are made by marine oysters and freshwater mussels as a natural defence ... Nacre can form naturally around almost any irritant that gets inside the shell, creating some very unique and precious ...

Oysters are the primary producers of pearls, clams and mussels can also ... This ligament keeps the valves open, allowing the oyster to feed. Inside the shell, the oyster has several parts ...

A natural pearl will form in an oyster when a foreign object, like a grain of sand, gets inside the shell. To protect itself, the oyster will coat the unwelcome visitor with layers of nacre ...

The pearl culture industry is in crisis after millions of oysters inexplicably died. The loss, estimated at 306 million yen ($2.8 million) to date in Ehime Prefecture alone, has not only dealt a ...