For at least 164,000 years, oysters have been part of the human diet, but people have been finding pearls in oysters for much longer — as early as 2300 BC when Chinese royalty received them as gifts.
Pearls begin as irritants within oysters, which respond by slowly covering the foreign object with layers of nacre. This ...
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