In South Africa, it's often called a "pansy shell" for its flower-like pattern. According to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, these sand-sweeping critters live on crustacean larvae, small copepods ...

We have made shell mobiles, arranged shells in patterns to make picture frames ... My sister, Leanne Peek, is an artist and framed the shell with sand and a sky-painted background.

Imagine stumbling upon a perfectly symmetrical, intricate pattern etched into the sand, only to discover its ... while others are adorned with small shells or bits of coral, adding both texture ...

How smushed shells could help to resolve paleontological mysteries. By Asher Elbein You never know where a bit of unusual scientific research is going to lead. Consider a 2012 study about turtle ...

Margaret treated the individual shells as petals, delicately arranging them in patterns that mimic real ... olive shells, sand dollars, murex, shark's eye, Florida fighting conchs, gaudy nautica ...

Professor Matthew Bennett, a sedimentologist at Bournemouth University, suggests using an 8:1 ratio of sand to water and using jagged shell fragments in the mix. - Combine eight parts sand to ...

cockle shells, coquina clams, Florida horse conches, keyhole limpets, lettered olives, moon snails, oysters, quahogs, slipper snails, Venus clams and whelks. You might also find sand dollars at ...