Oyster shucker Gallet said that he opens around 2,500 oysters per day at the Superior oyster bar, and spots a pearl just once or twice a week. Of course, Gallet said, he can’t be sure how many ...

The oyster was hauled up in the Solent and found in the nets of the trawler boat when it returned to port. A shell of this size could be concealing a pearl the size of a golf ball.

And in May, the world’s largest known freshwater pearl, known as “The Sleeping Lion,” sold for €320,000 ($374,000) at the Venduehuis auction house in the Netherlands.

The world's biggest ever oyster was found in Humboldt Bay, north California by retired Naval pilot Richard Mesce and was twice the size of the Mevagissey oyster at 13in long.

The world’s tallest building stands in Dubai. The largest city is in Japan. Brazil’s Amazon is the largest rain forest. And the largest airport sits in the middle of a Saudi Arabian desert ...

And in May, the world’s largest known freshwater pearl, known as “The Sleeping Lion,” sold for €320,000 ($374,000) at the Venduehuis auction house in the Netherlands.