"I'm grateful for whatever reason the snail did not sting me and to have this second chance," Beckylee Rawls told Newsweek ...

Beckylee Rawls was out exploring the tidepools when she noticed the top of a beautiful shell. She picked it up and held it for 30 seconds. Later, she learned the cone snail is considered the most ...

We were given a behind-the-scenes look at the daily tasks assigned to the aquarists of the Bailey-Matthews National Shell ...

There is a remarkable snail with breathtakingly beautiful shells that can only be found in Cuba. It is not native to any ...

Whether in the garden, the forest, or on the sidewalk–many want to help the defenseless mollusks, such as when they risk ...

Stunning violet sea snails have recently made a surprise appearance along La Jolla Shores, riding in on a warm ocean current.

Mother-of-pearl is the hard, silvery, internal layer of several kinds of shells, especially oysters, the large varieties of which in the Indian Seas secrete this coat of sufficient thickness to ...

Carly Hulse, the Senior Aquarist at Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum and Aquarium on Sanibel removes a deer cowrie from a tank on ...