Massive mounds of conch shells have been towering near Anegada in the British Virgin Islands for hundreds of years.

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 ...

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 ...

Conch’s potential demise in the Bahamas reflects the threat overfishing poses around the world to traditional foods. Such losses are among the starkest examples of how overfishing has changed… ...

Very unlikely. However, one of the local species, the Horse Conch, is the largest shell-making mollusk in the Atlantic Ocean (and Gulf of Mexico), so finding a very large Horse Conch can happen ...

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 ...