The pearls have a porcelain finish and luster like the interior of the conch shell, and come in a wide variety and combination of colors including white, red, pink, orange, yellow and brown.

Sea pearls are extremely precious and beautiful. They are formed in the body of certain types of organisms found in the sea.

The queen conch is the largest molluscan gastropod of the six conch species found in the shallow seagrass beds of Florida, the Bahamas, Bermuda, the Caribbean Islands and the northern coasts of ...

Pearls are made by marine oysters and freshwater mussels as a natural defence against an irritant such as a parasite entering their shell or damage to their fragile body. The oyster or mussel slowly ...

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It's a conch shell that was found in a hunter-gatherer cave in southern France. The artefact is the oldest known wind instrument of its type. To date, only bone flutes can claim a deeper heritage.

Mother-of-pearl, the iridescent coating inside oyster shells, once formed the foundation of a thriving button industry in the U.S. What is now the United States became famous for two products.

What Is a Conch Piercing? A conch piercing is an upper ear cartilage piercing that is done in either the upper or lower concha of your ear. Concha is the scientific name for the inner ...

Blowing a conch shell, an integral part of Hindu rituals offers numerous health benefits. It strengthens the respiratory ...

Pearls are the only gem materials formed and found within a living creature, such as bivalves like oysters, mussels and clams, or univalves, like the conch ... from their shells ready to be ...

One of the lesser heard stories of Lord Ganesha is that of Him and Lord Vishnu’s prized conch shell. Lord Ganesha has a playful, mischievous side to him that doesn’t spare anybody – not even ...

What is it? Well, many of the manicures feature this ethereal, pearly, opalescent finish, a bit like the mother-of-pearl-insides of a mollusc shell. So there, I’m calling it: shell nails are ...