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

While many older musical instruments have been discovered – including this 50,000 year old neanderthal flute – Fritz says that the 18,000-year-old conch would be the oldest of its kind known today..

The horse conch, found along the southern Atlantic coast, is Florida's state shell. But many decades of unregulated harvesting, as well as habitat degradation, is putting the stunning mollusk at ...

Leroy Glinton, a fourth generation conch fisherman, stands on a pile of discarded shells outside his home in McLean''s Town, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022.

Mary Lou, dubbed the Queen of Conch by Captain Scuba himself, will be leading the event on September 21, 2024. “Get your conch shells and start practicing,” Mary Lou encourages.