During a recent vacation on Sanibel Island, Jessica Reyna and her family participated in the popular tradition of shelling along the beach. More than six months after Hurricane Ian caused catastrophic ...

A large conch shell that had been languishing in a museum for decades has been revealed as the oldest known seashell instrument after archaeologists examined it more closely and realized belatedly ...

A large conch shell overlooked in a museum for decades is now thought to be the oldest known seashell instrument — and it still works, producing a deep, plaintive bleat, like a foghorn from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oddly shaped conch shells found at Neolithic archaeological sites dating back 6,000 years could have served as technology for ...

Dolphins in one western Australian population have been observed holding a large conch shell in their beaks and using it to shake a fish into their mouths — and the behavior may be spreading.

While renovating our garage, we found a box of large conch shells in ashes. Does anyone know if this was used for a specific purpose or just a shell collector? Our house is from around 1840-50s.

Already famed as Earth's first tool-using marine mammals, the bottlenose dolphins of Australia's Shark Bay have proved handy yet again, by using conch shells to trap tasty fish, then shaking them into ...