On a warm, sunny day last April, two researchers from Chicago's Shedd Aquarium went to count conchs in the country's Exuma ...

Yes, mollusks. Mollusks have a special composite material lining their inner shell, known as “nacre.” Nacre, also known as ...

The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium on Sanibel will kick off its 2026 Season Lecture Series at the museum, ...

Longtime fossil collector Barry Norbeck donated thousands of shells and other invertebrate fossils to the Calvert Marine ...

Researchers at the California Academy of Sciences kept busy throughout 2025. Along with collaborators from across the globe, ...

A pearl does not begin as something precious. It begins as a problem. Inside an oyster, a tiny particle slips in and settles ...

There will be a free movie under the stars at 6:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 9, at Estero Park, 9200 Corkscrew Palms Blvd., Estero.

It was huge. Its light brown shell stood taller than the tip of my shoe. Its yellowish-green body stretched about an inch ...

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (WLOX) - New RESTORE Act funding is expanding oyster shell recycling efforts along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, turning discarded shells from local restaurants into tools for ...

Senior leaders at Shell rejected a proposal to acquire rival BP early in 2025, prompting the resignation of the former executive in charge of Shell’s mergers and acquisitions, the Financial Times ...

One famous snail’s death highlights the plight faced by diverse Hawaiian snails, of which there were once hundreds of species ...

Boulder, Colo., USA: The consequences of a warming climate are known to be dangerous for marine ecosystems, with environmental changes like ocean acidification and warming, disrupted nutrient supplies ...