The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum and Aquarium on Sanibel has a collection of more than 600,000 shells. The elusive ...

AN extraordinary collection of sea shells from around the world, gathered together by an 18th century Cumbrian woman who never left the country, is to go on public display for the first time in more ...

The ocean has always called to us with its rhythmic waves, endless mysteries and treasures scattered along the shore. Most of us are drawn by the glimmer of a seashell, a tiny piece of the sea we long ...

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 ...

Mary Madison doesn’t subscribe to the paper, but last Tuesday night the Sparta resident was surfing the Web and decided to check the obituaries in the La Crosse Tribune when a story caught her eye. A ...

A widow donates her late husband's 170,000 sea shell collection to Occidental College to help with research for science classes.

A widow donates her late husband's 170,000 sea shell collection to Occidental College to help with research for science classes.

There are sea shells that wash up on the beach and then there are those that most people don’t often get to see. The common beach versions are often used to frame mirrors or adorn window sills but ...