Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer is known to have created 36 pieces of artwork during his life, including his most famous painting, "Girl with a Pearl Earring." The painting depicts a woman ...

it said on Monday after admitting it destroyed a large number of freshwater pearl mussels near one of its sites this month. Forestry machines crossing the Hukkajoki river in central Finland on Aug.

Employees of Metsähallitus have spent recent days near the logging site carrying buckets of freshwater pearl mussels upstream in Hukkajoki River. The mussels were suffocating because the river had ...

The Abernethy Pearl - the largest Scottish freshwater pearl found in living memory - was discovered in 1967 and was named after its finder, William Abernethy, known as the nation's last pearl ...