Out of their shell: ... “When it peters out, I run conch pots. ... “And we don’t deliver — our customers come to us. Some customers buy a pallet at a time, ...

Janet Gregory remembers the first time she saw a queen conch off the coast of Mexico years ago. She thought the iridescent pink-lined, flared-lipped shell was one of the most beautiful things she&#… ...

A horn made from a conch shell over 17,000 years ago has blasted out musical notes for the first time in millennia. Archaeologists originally found the seashell in 1931, in a French cave that ...

After 18,000 years of silence, an ancient musical instrument played its first notes. The last time anyone heard a sound from the conch shell trumpet, thick sheets of ice still covered most of Europe.

The team says the Marsoulas conch was blown by members of the Magdalenian cultures, who lived in western Europe from about 21,000 to 14,000 years ago. And they employed a musician to play the ...