Down slippery rocks along a creek in Camden, Tennessee, a small flatbed boat sits anchored in shallow water. It's used to harvest beautiful pearls from Tennessee River mussels in the bay of Birdsong ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. South Dakota native John Latendresse was on a cross-country road trip in 1949 when he found himself at Kentucky Lake in Tennessee.

CAMDEN, Tenn. (WKRN) — Did you know that one of nature’s most beautiful gemstones, the freshwater pearl, is the official state gem of Tennessee? That’s because the only freshwater pearl farm in North ...

Ranchi: Jharkhand is rapidly emerging as India's freshwater pearl farming hub, with the state government and Centre implementing comprehensive training programmes and infrastructure development to ...

This is in part because of their extraordinary life-cycle: vast numbers of tiny larvae, known as glochidia, are released by ...