Pearly find gets repeated

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) - January 14, 2008 Mike McHenry thought he had chomped down on a piece of shell last week and instead spit out a pea-sized pearl. A marine specialist Rutgers Cooperative Extension says 95 percent of pearls are cultured for production so the natural pearl was a rare find. Last month, a Florida man found a rare iridescent purple pearl in his steamed clams while eating out in South Florida. That one was about half the size of a jellybean.