A conch shell that is now thought to be a horn was found in 1931, but researchers only recently discovered that it may have been used as a musical instrument. The shell has a hole in it that was ...

Nine decades later, a study published in Science Advances has determined that the shell had been modified to attach a mouthpiece, indicating it was most likely used as a horn. Using advanced imaging ...

For a subset of China’s wealthy class, rare wildlife products such as helmeted hornbill carvings, elephant ivory, and rhinoceros horn can be ... of ferocity, the shell of a sea turtle mounted ...

Nudibranchs, commonly known as sea slugs, are a group of shell-less marine molluscs. Their name means 'naked gill', referring to the breathing apparatus on the outside of their soft bodies. Dorid ...

Around the deep-sea vents off the southern coast of Japan ... a specimen to bring back to the surface for further study. The shell was completely translucent, revealing the scallop inside ...