Visitors Invited To Celebrate and Reflect on Connections Spanning US Represented in the National Museum of Natural History’s ...

AN extraordinary collection of sea shells from around the world, gathered together by an 18th century Cumbrian woman who never left the country, is to go on public display for the first time in more ...

For me, there’s no more resonant image from a Florida childhood than this: You’re on a bright beach, sun blazing, clouds so big they must surely be the home of the gods. The roar of the waves ...

You’re in good company if you’ve combed the shoreline for shells, marveled at the glinting, microscopic pieces that make up the sand, or held a snail shell up to your ear listening for the ocean or ...

TROY – A nondescript one-story building sits along Second Street in the city’s Osgood neighborhood, and all that hints of the wonders that lie within are two handmade placards displaying a clam shell.

Harry Lee is giving away $1 million — in shells, that is. These aren’t your usual run of the ocean shells. Some are new species he discovered. Some are named for him. Some are very rare. Lee is ...

A collection of fossil shells from marine snails and clams is challenging a theory that says the world's deadliest mass extinction was accompanied by severe ocean acidification. The study is the first ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Dieter Cosman scoured the world's water for nearly 50 years, and the Florida yacht sales executive's widow donated his meticulous collection to ...

One hundred thousand years ago, a human cousin walked a rock- ribbed beach along the Mediterranean Sea, her head lowered and her large eyes scanning the shoreline. Now and again she stopped, bent her ...