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

For those who have never prepared conch — the giant sea snail with a spiral shell that doubles as a trumpet — Compton likes ...

They were once even bigger: Historic Florida photographs show tourists lugging horse conch shells half the length of a small child. Those sizes aren’t seen anymore, prompting researchers to ask why.

as small as one micron or one thousandth of a millimeter thick. The Queen conch shell, Ballarini explained, contains many cracks along the interfaces of its crossed lamellar structure that ...

Typically, Chacoan centers from this period consisted of enormous sandstone structures known as "great houses", around which small clusters ... have discovered conch shell trumpets within elite ...