Over the course of 10 years, the Billion Oyster Project, one of New York's most ambitious rewilding initiatives, has planted ...

Brewers then worked out that oyster shells naturally clarified a beer ... thought to have been his motivation behind invading the British Isles.

Magnets attached to oyster shells are monitored by sensors which ... successfully to predict the spawning behaviour of oysters in British seas and communicated directly back to land via 4G ...

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 ...

Oyster shells are bulky and plain, but the treasures they hold go beyond their tasty meat and beautiful pearls. One company in Hong Kong is turning them into materials for constructing buildings.