Florida’s marine life attracts people from all over the world — but what happens if someone gets too comfortable with the state’s natural wonders? Florida has strictly enforced laws in place to ...

Sir Peter Anderson blew his conch shell with gusto at the start of the island city’s “Independence Celebration” parade. Next, he proclaimed for all to hear: “Long live the Conch Republic. Looooong ...

A Texas tourist who collected 40 queen conchs seashells from Key West, Florida, is going to jail for 15 days. A Florida judge also sentenced Diana Fiscal-Gonzalez of Dallas to serve six months of ...

FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Tereha Davis, whose family has fished for conch from waters around the Bahamas for five generations, remembers when she could walk into the water from the beach and pick up ...

Built in the style of a modest 'conch' house, this estate was later expanded and upgraded; 'we see a dolphin almost every single day,' the owner says.—Stefanos Chen Stefanos Chen ...

The queen of the sea, a monster mollusk that inspired its own republic in the American state of Florida, is in trouble. It’s now as likely to be found in a frying pan or a gift shop as on the ocean ...

Nearly two years later and the effects of the 2016 algae crisis linger. The water is what brought Marcia Foosaner here years ago. "Think it was absolutely perfect," said Foosaner. Now it's the water ...

The shell was found during the 1931 excavation of a cave with prehistoric wall paintings in the French Pyrenees and assumed to be a ceremonial drinking cup. Archaeologists from the University of ...

A conch shell found in a cave used by the Magdalenian people of the late Upper Palaeolithic was originally thought to be a cup, but a new analysis suggests they used it as a kind of horn. That would ...

WHILE it may be tempting to bring one seemingly common item back to the UK from your holidays, it could land you in serious trouble. Conch shells are large, pinkish, spiral-shaped shells - and packing ...