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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

But when she launched her Thames Glass drinkware collection in 2022, it sold out within weeks; she has won a string of ...

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 ...