They gather the treasure of the sea for different reasons: To marvel at its natural beauty. To explore a mysterious world. To create art. For some, they are acquisitions gathered by money or exchange.

Picking up shells on the beach may seem like child’s play, but to elite shell collectors, it’s a hobby and a lifestyle. Unbeknownst to most non-shellers, there’s an entire culture of avid collectors ...

You’ve collected them and cleaned them, now where do you put them? With the copious seashell collections belonging to members of the Louisiana Malacological Society, the solution is to incorporate ...

As big as a loaf of bread and as small as a grain of rice, thousands of shells from all over the world were on display and for sale at the Jacksonville Shell Club's 45th show. The show was from Friday ...

Randy and Donna Schiefer headed to the beach early Tuesday with a small sand shovel. The Navarre couple hoped to find cool shells brought up in the piles of sand being pumped from the deep Gulf during ...

This is the “flamingo tongue snail,” one of the most brightly colored snails on the reefs of the South Atlantic. It used to be a common sight, but in recent years has been disappearing, either because ...