Pearls begin as irritants within oysters, which respond by slowly covering the foreign object with layers of nacre. This ...

ASHEVILLE - One guest’s dinner may be another guest’s treasure at a seafood restaurant. Chefs and line cooks are known to unearth unexpected items within shipments that are more than what they ...

“It was such a bizarre experience,” said Keely Hill. On a Saturday afternoon in early December, the 32-year-old kindergarten teacher had met some friends at Superior Seafood in Uptown New Orleans for ...

For centuries, researchers have puzzled over how oysters grow stunningly symmetrical, perfectly round pearls around irregularly shaped grains of sand or bits of debris. Now a team has shown that ...

In Florida, oysters are packing more than pearls – they're also filled with toxic chemicals. Researchers from Florida International University published a new study on Wednesday that the mollusks from ...

One guest’s dinner may be another guest’s treasure at a seafood restaurant. Chefs and line cooks are known to unearth unexpected items within shipments that are more than what they bargained for ?

The woman was dining at Puckett's Boat House in Franklin, Tennessee. — -- A Tennessee woman is 50 pearls richer today after discovering the jewels when she bit into an oyster while lunching at ...

Imagine biting into an oyster and discovering a pearl inside. That exact thing happened to one Southwest Florida couple. And, this is an extremely rare discovery. For Anja Kellenberger and her fiance, ...

Last month we brought you the story of a diner in South Florida who discovered a rare iridescent purple pearl in his steamed clams. Last week it happened again. Mike McHenry spit out a pearl while ...

WILMINGTON, Del. – A Pennsylvania man found a rare treasure while on vacation in Delaware last week, and not on the beach. Scott Overland, 37, was dining with his wife and two children at Salt Air in ...

An island kingdom just off the Arabian Peninsula, known as the first emirate nation to discover oil in 1932, wants to re-establish itself as the global center for sustainable pearls. Natural pearls ...