THE queen conch - as defined in WildEarth’s petition to the US government: The queen conch is a large gastropod mollusk characterised by a hard external spiral-shaped shell with blunt spikes. The ...
Archaeologists working in northeastern Spain say a cache of conch shells was not just decorative debris from ancient shorelines but a set of carefully modified instruments that once filled Neolithic ...
Most seashells come from mollusks, a large group of marine animals, including clams, snails and oysters, which make shells as a protective covering. These shells are created from the outer surface of ...