Rebecca Winship tells PEOPLE how a once-in-a-lifetime pearl discovery became an heirloom Ashley Vega is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously ...

Conch pearls are formed by concentric layers of fibrous crystals, and this layering often produces the desired flame structure, which is characteristic of conch pearls. The pearls have a porcelain ...

Here are Drs. Héctor Acosta-Salmón and Megan Davis, co-inventors, standing beside an aquaculture tank at Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. The queen conch is farmed ...

GEMS, precious stones and metals are mostly mined from Earth. To bring out their beauty, they are cut, cleaned and polished in various ways and a number of times until they attain the perfect shine.

In 2023, Rebecca Winship discovered a rare conch pearl while eating a fritter in Key West, a find that happens in only one in 10,000 conchs She turned the pearl into a custom baroque-inspired cocktail ...