In the 1980s, a trove of rare shells—some of which had been collected on a famed 18th-century voyager’s doomed final expedition—was tossed in a dumpster at Newcastle University in England during an ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Shells from Captain James Cook’s final voyage were thought lost, but it turns out ...

In the late 1700s, a woman collected over a thousand seashells from all over the world. The collection was believed to be lost for decades, until they were saved from the garbage in the 1980s. In the ...