The wind was already whipping a few Sundays ago around noon as a small army of kids and their parents rigged up small Sabot sailboats and slightly larger Fevas on the ramps of the Santa Barbara Harbor ...

It's hard to go to any beach without looking for a treasure or two in the sand. Florida's coastline is full of shells both rare and common. While seashell hunters can travel far and wide to scour good ...

OUTER BANKS -- Thousands of seashells are piling up on beaches located in North Carolina's Outer Banks while tourists are being kept away because of the coronavirus pandemic. Video from Cape Lookout ...

The reason why seashells are tough and lobster claws hard to break, is because of the presence of biological matter situated between the calcium carbonate crystals. These clumps are situated between ...

Seashells are pretty tough cookies, and now researchers may know why: The mother of pearl that coats the inside of the shell is arranged in a brickwork structure that makes the shell both tough and ...

Chalk and seashells are made of the same thing: calcium carbonate. Shells are stronger because they have trapped proteins inside, and scientist had thought that these proteins were trapped like flies ...

When Yarmouth Port resident Sandy Moran left her job as an accountant for a law firm 26 years ago, she headed to Sanibel Island in Florida. There she wandered into a shell shop and found a brand new ...