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Everyone needs a hobby. I enjoy researching our history both natural and cultural. One ongoing pursuit I have is to confirm ...
Massive mounds of conch shells have been towering near Anegada in the British Virgin Islands for hundreds of years.
The historic Queen’s Island Victoria Male Voice Choir, formed in 1912 in the Harland and Wolff ship yard, has sang its final ...
Among the coral and sand, something unusual caught his eye: a stunningly patterned object that looked like the perfect ocean ...
The Australian stop-motion animator discusses his latest film, a ‘clayography’ of a snail-loving hoarder whose difficult life has caused her to retreat into her shell.
Humans have used their beautiful shells, sticky mucus and muscular bodies throughout history for food, religious rituals, medicine and ornamentation. Snails and their shell-less relatives ...
The snail's proboscis was a hypodermic needle ... ships of the Dutch East India Company brought back spectacularly beautiful shells from what is now Indonesia, and they became prized items in ...
“Their shells exhibit extraordinarily complexity ... collected in the 1980s. OTHER BEAUTIFUL SNAILS: Photographer Unites With Cuban Scientists to Save the World’s Most Beautiful Snail ...
It has a beautiful copper color ... world-record-sized shells, deep-sea species, land snails, and ancient fossils.