A couple of kids “enjoying the outdoors” along a Maryland river made a rare discovery. The sixth and seventh graders were at Winters Run in Harford County when they opened a freshwater clam and found ...

A group of middle schoolers made a surprising discovery while "enjoying the outdoors" at river in northern Maryland over the weekend. The kids were exploring Winters Run, a 14-mile river in Harford ...

For thousands of years, pearls have been a prized gemstone used to craft jewelry and other adornments. But North America has ...

They say to “clam up” is to become silent, but for one lucky man, a clam caused him to shout in celebration. Scott Overland, a husband and father-of-two who works in corporate communications in the ...

DRIVING INTO LAKE CITY on a recent sultry summer afternoon, I expected to learn about water skiing in this Lake Pepin side community which calls itself the birthplace of that water sport. After all, ...

In a remarkably short span of time, men, boys and even women left their work to go to the Winooski river to look for clams, for clams meant pearls. Business men neglected their trade in order that ...

Perhaps because they lead such a tight-lipped existence, the millions of clams in the upper Mississippi River have long been taken for granted by their owners: the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin and ...

Kids discovered a pearl inside a freshwater clam in Maryland, officials said. Screengrab from the Maryland Department of Natural Resource's post on Facebook. A couple of kids “enjoying the outdoors” ...