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 ...

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 ...

Down slippery rocks along a creek in Camden, Tennessee, a small flatbed boat sits anchored in shallow water. It's used to harvest beautiful pearls from Tennessee River mussels in the bay of Birdsong ...

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 ...

If you want pearl jewelry from this Soho shop, you’re going to have to use some mussel. At Pearl & the Beast, shoppers can go fishing for mussels and shuck them open themselves for shiny pearls to ...