The marketing pitch for Florida’s Sanibel and Captiva islands is “250 Kinds of Shells, 250 Miles of Bike Paths, 15 Miles of Beaches.” With shells getting the top billing over the islands’ many scenic ...

Berkeley -- University of California, Berkeley, graduate student Alistair Boettiger has amassed a beautiful collection of seashells, but not by combing the beach. He created them in his computer. He ...

A collection of fossil shells from marine snails and clams is challenging a theory that says the world's deadliest mass extinction was accompanied by severe ocean acidification. The study is the first ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Scientists have estimated that just one small stretch of beaches along the Gulf of ...