Seashells are so plentiful that you may sometimes take them for granted. Scientists have estimated that just one small stretch of beaches along the Gulf of California contained at least 2 trillion ...

One hundred thousand years ago, a human cousin walked a rock- ribbed beach along the Mediterranean Sea, her head lowered and her large eyes scanning the shoreline. Now and again she stopped, bent her ...

As many cemeteries as I've visited over the years, I never came across seashell grave covers until recently. I'm not talking about shells scattered on a grave, which I've heard is an old African ...

Hidden beneath the world's oceans are seashells so rare they have only been discovered a handful of times. For serious conchologists and collectors, finding one of these elusive treasures is the ...

Seashells and lobster claws are hard to break, but chalk is soft enough to draw on sidewalks. Though all three are made of calcium carbonate crystals, the hard materials include clumps of soft ...

Seashells are one of the most abundant and diverse among nature’s myriad marine resources. They have been valued by man as religious symbols, artifacts and decorative or ornamental objects. Shells are ...

An expert from the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum has compiled a list of rare shells found in Florida. The popular and rare Junonia shell was intentionally excluded from this particular list. A ...

Tourists trying to steal hundreds of pebbles and seashells, as well as sand from the Italian island of Sardinia, are set to be handed hefty fines, police say. Nearly 220 pebbles and around 160 ...