The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium will host a guided Sunrise Shell and Mollusk Stroll on Feb. 12 at 7 a.m. at Lighthouse Beach, at 110 Periwinkle Way, Sanibel. Participants will ...

Press, the formation of Lee County, the storied history of the Lee County Courthouse, Southwest Florida’s largest city, Cape ...

My mom and I live on opposite coasts, but we've made it a tradition to take a mother-daughter trip almost every year — exploring places like Maine, Spain, Paris, Charleston, and soon Mackinac Island, ...

Vacations are meant to be relaxing, and Captiva Island, a tiny five-mile-long island in Southwest Florida has fully embraced that sentiment. Everything about the under-the-radar destination encourages ...

But conch snails defy these expectations with eyesight as good as some vertebrates. These marine snails combine exceptional vision, protective shells, and acrobatic leaping to evade deadly predators.

A series of images from NASA's Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 satellites have captured the island's appearance in the sea and its near-complete disappearance by the end of the following year. Satellite ...

The Navy intercepted a suspect (01) attempting to transport approximately 2,137 undersized conch shells in a dinghy during a search operation off Paramunei, Kalpitiya, yesterday. The apprehension was ...

Eagle-eyed geologist Mark Tingay recently noticed the emergence of a ‘ghost island’ in November of 2024, caused by a submarine mud volcano called Kumani Bank. Satellites show that the island ...