The Junonia is a coveted shell found off the coasts of Florida. It is distinguished by its attractive brownish spots. The shell is part of the Volutidae family. Note to readers: This is Part 3 in a ...

The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium on Sanibel will kick off its 2026 Season Lecture Series at the museum, ...

Bridget Atkinson built this collection. Born in 1732, Atkinson and her sister were raised at Kirkoswald by their widowed mother, who taught them how to write and sent them to study homemaking in ...

Harry Lee has spent seven decades traveling the world collecting shells — and even found one unknown to science in his own back yard In his basement office Harry Lee, a retired Jacksonville doctor, ...

In the late 1700s, a woman collected over a thousand seashells from all over the world. The collection was believed to be lost for decades, until they were saved from the garbage in the 1980s. In the ...

Jose H. Leal, Ph.D. Science Director & Curator of the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium stands for a portrait with some of the massive shell collection on Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. The ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A special shell collection is up for bid on Oahu. A family from St. Louis Heights is putting their enormous shell collection up for sale. Judi Breisch said her father ...

As a young boy, Harry Lee would often visit his grandmother in South Orange, N.J. Her next-door neighbor, a retired scissors maker, was a shell collector who gave the young Lee one of his shells. "I ...

SAN PEDRO (CBSLA.com) — The Battleship Iowa Museum in San Pedro is getting some authentic additions to its historic collection. The military is adding 76 huge shells, once fired from the ship's giant ...

In the 1980s, a trove of rare shells—some of which had been collected on a famed 18th-century voyager’s doomed final expedition—was tossed in a dumpster at Newcastle University in England during an ...