The photograph is authentic and features Triplofusus giganteus, a species from the Fasciolariidae family. Although commonly referred to as the "Florida horse conch," it is not a "true conch" by ...

Photograph by State Archives of Florida Betty Boone, at the beach pouring water from a giant horse conch shell - Daytona Beach, Florida, 1948. To estimate age and reproductive maturity ...

Visitors from Buffalo uncover two large horse conch shells According the the Bailey-Matthews National Seashell Museum's junonia research page on its website, the junonia shell is rare because it ...

If it’s a horse conch, in addition to the large size, you’ll feel the little bumps that run along the middle. Is this a common practice to look for shells when you are in the Gulf? REYNA ...

Conch shells and symbols of the shellfish are everywhere: A giant statue of a conch shell greets tourists at Lynden Pindling International Airport in the capital city of Nassau. Dishes ...

It looks like a jumble of flesh onto which have been stuck two giant googly eyes. Fixed to the end of tentacle-like stocks, those eyes poke out of the conch’s shell like a periscope from a ...

These marine snails combine exceptional vision, protective shells, and acrobatic leaping to evade ... While most snails crawl, conch snails possess an exceptionally large foot that allows them to make ...