Members of the media are silhouetted as they walk past the giant clam shell and model of the largest recorded pearl at the Pearls: A Natural History exhibit at the Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and ...

The story of the Gulf is one of the sea, long before it became one of oil. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, natural pearls from Gulf waters were among the most sought-after luxuries on the planet ...

Natural or real pearls are made by oysters and other mollusks. Cultured pearls also are grown by mollusks, but with human intervention; that is, an irritant introduced into the shells causes a pearl ...