Authorities say the conch shell was one of the murder weapons Rose Marie Moniz, 41, was found beaten to death in her home in New Bedford, Mass., in March 2001. The murder weapons were a fireplace ...

Archaeologists working in northeastern Spain say a cache of conch shells was not just decorative debris from ancient shorelines but a set of carefully modified instruments that once filled Neolithic ...

The queen conch is the largest molluscan gastropod of the six conch species found in the shallow seagrass beds of Florida, the Bahamas, Bermuda, the Caribbean Islands and the northern coasts of ...

Researchers analyzing an 18,000-year-old conch shell found in 1931 say that it was indeed used as a musical instrument millennia ago. The conch shell, unearthed in the Marsoulas Cave in Southwestern ...

A large conch shell that had been languishing in a museum for decades has been revealed as the oldest known seashell instrument after archaeologists examined it more closely and realized belatedly ...

Two eyes peek out from under the shell of a queen conch sitting on the seafllor. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...