WANCHESE, N.C. Everywhere on the Outer Banks beaches are tiny holes. Snails that drill through shells, crabs that excavate tunnels, and air pockets where little bubbles pop as the waves recede &nda… ...

EUSTIS — Volunteers tidying up the community on Tuesday came across a horrific sight: more than a dozen gopher tortoise shells in the woods with holes apparently drilled into them. They found ...

For her study, Melbourne looked at shells collected in the early 1900s and the 1960s from five sites: Nahant Bay in Massachusetts, the southern end of Cape Cod, the tip of the Long Island Sound ...

The researchers collected shells from octopus dens at the bottom of False Bay and recorded the location of the drill holes on each shell. They studied a total of 179 shells, ...

The volunteers were also on the lookout for shells with holes in them, trying to measure the spread of predatory sea snails preying on shellfish. Near the beach, ...