Talk:Pearl Dragon/@comment-68.228.45.115-20120602040804/@comment-24.22.72.171-20120602044721

You're off by a long shot! Pearls are created by a grain of sand (or anything else that is very small and fine) getting caught in a shelled mollusk's mantle and causing irrtation to it. It tries to stop the irrtation by simply covering it up in very fine, crystalised organic matter composed of calcium carbonate like its shell since it's not capable of picking it out or sneezing it out like how we sneeze out dust caught in our nose. While you had the sand idea right, the heat and pressure is in no way related to the creation of a pearl.