A retractable foot, a siphon for sucking up water, powerful muscles, and, sometimes, a pearl. And you thought ... many bizarre features you'll find inside a clam. Like oysters and mussels, clams ...

Getty A couple who found a pearl inside a clam while on a date years ago has turned the gemstone into a precious piece of jewelry. Ken Steinkamp and Sandy Sikorski were dining at a Rhode Island ...

Only one in 5,000 quahogs creates a pearl. Furthermore ... That, or I have to keep eating clams and find a second one if I want to turn it into earrings.” Read more about Scott Overland and ...

Within the shell, you will notice both have muscular feet and pearls but there ... from each other. Clams are halfway buried ...

Today, however, quahogs are primarily a food source, often found in clam chowders ... But don’t expect to find a pearl inside these shells. Only about one in a million quahog shells produce ...