Sitting atop the crow’s nest of a small barge, the boat captain shielded his eyes from the July sun and pitched his gaze to the commotion below. The hum of heavy equipment and the clatter of oyster ...

Shells on the beach at Cape Hatteras National Seashore last September. A series of storms in recent months have deposited millions of seashells along the N.C. coast. National Park Service The series ...

Cape Lookout National Seashore on the Outer Banks is seeing large seashells tumbling ashore, due to strong seasonal wave action off the North Carolina coast. Park visitors report finding more shells ...

In the little coastal town of Kanyakumari, in southern India, mountains of newly harvested mollusk shells—living animals still inside them—lie drying out near a sun-drenched beach. Next up for these ...