natural pearls

The world's largest freshwater pearl block is about to be sold at the Venduehuis auction house in The Hague, Netherlands on May 31, according to CNN.

A pearl worth $ 100 million collected by a Filipino fisherman is five times larger than the previous record holder.

Natural sea pearls excavated in an Australian archaeological site in 2011 dating back 2,000 years.

Boys secrete nacre wraps of foreign objects into the body, over many years creating pearls of various shapes and sizes.