Oddly shaped conch shells found at Neolithic archaeological sites dating back 6,000 years could have served as technology for producing an extremely loud noise, scientists have discovered. The tests ...

Artist's rendering of a prehistoric human playing the ancient conch instrument G. Tosello A team of researchers was studying the archaeological inventory of the Natural History Museum of Toulouse in ...

Miquel López-García is an archaeologist. He’s also a professional trumpeter, performing in many styles from jazz and funk to salsa and Catalan folk music. And as a child, he told The Guardian, he ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... KEY WEST, fla. — A Colorado man, competing in his late father’s honor, won the men’s division of the 52nd annual Conch Shell Blowing Contest on Saturday ...

When you're a conch, mating is better in a group. In fact, it’s the only way it works. These slow-moving Caribbean sea slugs carry heavy pink and orange shells, which make chasing down mates ...

FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Tereha Davis, whose family has fished for conch from waters around the Bahamas for five generations, remembers when she could walk into the water from the beach and pick up ...

While aboard a Dream Yacht catamaran sailing around the British Virgin Islands (a place home to a number of underrated national parks) with Captain Anita Diaz Balmisa of Sail Wind Sea, I spent the day ...