Archaeologists in France have accomplished a stunning feat related to an astonishing conch shell. Originally discovered in 1931, the conch shell was first thought to be nothing more than a mere ...

Palapa-style accommodations embody laid-back island luxury at Anegada Beach Club, nestled along the island's beachy, breezy north shore. The fourth-largest barrier reef in the world, Anegada's ...

the world really is your oyster when it comes to these ear adornments. When we say conch, do you think about the shell you press against your ear in an attempt to hear the sea? Us, too.

In 1931, archaeologists discovered a conch shell—then assumed to be a drinking vessel—in the Marsoulas Cave, famous for its long history of sheltering early humans and providing a trove of artifacts, ...

The queen conch is the largest molluscan gastropod of the six conch species found in the shallow seagrass beds of Florida, the Bahamas, Bermuda, the Caribbean Islands and the northern coasts of ...

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Violet Figueiredo, 15, of New Market, Maryland, found a horse conch on April 13 near Gulfside Place on Sanibel. She arrived that day with her family to spend spring break week visiting her ...

Erika Bergman: Underneath that there's no oxygen, no life, and down there we found conchs and conch shells and hermit crabs that had fallen into the hole and suffocated, really. Narrator ...

As you explore, you notice a conch shell. Stoutly made, it has six heavy spikes coming off it. Perhaps the maker is within. Or perhaps the maker is long dead, and the shell now belongs to a hermit ...

The large, marine snail is heavily in demand for its meat and iconic shell, which is used for décor and jewelry; overfishing and poaching have caused its decline in the Mexican Caribbean. “Under ...