(CN) — Scientists have concluded that an ancient conch shell recovered from the renowned painted Marsoulas cave in the Pyrenees mountains is the earliest wind instrument of its kind on record and ...

A Texas tourist who collected 40 queen conchs seashells from Key West, Florida, is going to jail for 15 days. A Florida judge also sentenced Diana Fiscal-Gonzalez of Dallas to serve six months of ...

A horn made from a conch shell over 17,000 years ago has blasted out musical notes for the first time in millennia. Archaeologists originally found the seashell in 1931, in a French cave that contains ...

Jenny Lehmann is an assistant editor at Discover Magazine who writes articles on microbiology, psychology, neurology, and zoology, and oversees the Piece of Mind column of the print issue. View Full ...

Many Caribbean people who have enjoyed conch fritters, a nice fresh conch salad or conch stew probably have not made the connection that this meat was harvested from a beautiful conch shell. Conch ...

Do you celebrate? If you live in Southwest Florida, or on or near any beach in Florida, the chances are pretty good that you do. Florida is a mecca for seashell hunters. And Southwest Florida takes ...

The shell was found during the 1931 excavation of a cave with prehistoric wall paintings in the French Pyrenees and assumed to be a ceremonial drinking cup. Archaeologists from the University of ...

The recent popularity of seashell jewelry has some Hawaiʻi residents worried about overharvesting ʻopihi. HPR's Cassie ...

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46 x 35 cm. (18.1 x 13.8 in.) Bouquet of flowers in a Greek vase, a conch and a seashell on the table with relief with putti. Unsigned. Oil on canvas. 46×35 cm. Literature: Ch.A. Been, “Danmarks ...