Rare find came from Virginia clam shack. — -- A Virginia Beach woman who picked up a couple bags of clams from a seafood shack was shocked when she discovered a rare, purple pearl inside one of ...

One of Australia's oldest pearl farms is celebrating a rare moment this week after opening up a pearl oyster shell to discover 10 pearls inside. Third generation pearl farmer James Brown and his ...

A woman in Mount Pearl has found a slimy sideline with a silver lining — opening oysters live online for people who have purchased the pearl hidden inside. Mandi Osborne watched an online ...

In the second half of the 1800s, a group of Catholic missionaries gathered a group of school-age boys in French Polynesia and taught them how to grow, harvest and process pearl shells. Eventually, ...

In some parts of the world, divers risk their lives by holding their breath for minutes at a time in the hope of recovering precious pearls from the depths of the ocean. James Parsons was wading ...