This poor snail hops desperately away from danger when approached by a predator, unlike its brethren, who flee slowly in quiet desperation. We should study their technique, because they may one day be ...

To find out if hunting and harvesting act as evolutionary forces that “shrink” animals, researchers isolated DNA from tropical shells for the first time Elisabeth King The next time you eat seafood, ...

Dee Conchman started his conch-making enterprise six years ago. He's part of a group of Miami food entrepreneurs who specialize in the sweet shellfish. Derrick Prater is "Dee Conchman." Every day he ...

The first humans to pluck a Caribbean fighting conch from the shallow lagoons of Panama’s Bocas del Toro were in for a good meal. Smithsonian scientists found that 7,000 years ago, this common marine ...

The next time you eat seafood, think about the long-term effects. Will consistently eating the biggest fish or the biggest conch, mean that only the smaller individuals will have a chance to reproduce ...

Uh oh! Did I just eat an endangered species? Fortunately, the queen conch (Strombus gigas) isn’t quite endangered (yet). But the species has been over-harvested in the Florida Keys, leading to a ...

There has been a major decline in the population of protected queen conchs in the Bahamas’ Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park over the last 20 years. The most recent survey found predominantly older queen ...

The Great Conch Shell has been stolen and it’s up to Freddi Fish and Luther to catch the culprit! All is well on their tropical vacation, until the finny friends realize that Great Conch Shell is ...

In Wonderland, Alice drank a potion to shrink herself. In nature, some animal species shrink to escape the attention of human hunters, a process that takes from decades to millennia. To begin to ...