Tridacna - Giant Clam Shell Pearl

[Slraep]

Doesn't this look more like a clam concretion. It's ugly enough! Baroque is putting it mildly.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080520/jsp/nation/story_9294910.jsp

Freshwater, huh? Why do people always bring up that blubbery, stomach-churning Pearl of Allah as a comparison? Damn, that evaluation of it is mind boggling no matter how many times I read it.

Slraep