Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jose H. Leal, Ph.D. Science Director & Curator of the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium stands for a portrait with ...

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 ...

Bridget Atkinson built this collection. Born in 1732, Atkinson and her sister were raised at Kirkoswald by their widowed mother, who taught them how to write and sent them to study homemaking in ...

The Junonia is a coveted shell found off the coasts of Florida. It is distinguished by its attractive brownish spots. The shell is part of the Volutidae family. Note to readers: This is Part 3 in a ...

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 ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A special shell collection is up for bid on Oahu. A family from St. Louis Heights is putting their enormous shell collection up for sale. Judi Breisch said her father ...

Harry Lee has spent seven decades traveling the world collecting shells — and even found one unknown to science in his own back yard In his basement office Harry Lee, a retired Jacksonville doctor, ...