One of my favorite pastimes here in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez is exploring the vacant fisherman’s camps that dot the bays and islands. Each camp belongs to a particular angler and his family and friends, ...

Sea shells are abundant on the New Jersey shores. There are the black ridged scallop shells that look like accordion fans, the pretty and delicate spiral shells that come in various patterns and ...

Most seashells come from mollusks, a large group of marine animals, including clams, snails and oysters, which make shells as a protective covering. These shells are created from the outer surface of ...

This story was originally published August 2017. Maybe collecting shells is a favorite pastime of yours, but you don’t know which is a moon snail and which is a mud snail. Or, you’re walking along the ...

Dave was the leader of a group of divers I had connected with while on a 1980 sabbatical in San Diego. On one of our dive trips, we crossed the border and drove to Ensenada, Mexico, diving the rocky ...

TOKYO >> Hills of white scallop shells were piling up in Yubetsu, a town facing the Sea of Okhotsk in Hokkaido. They looked like out-of-season snow mounds. The shells blanketed every free space on a ...

Six-year-old Luke Callihan, of Pennington, collects shells on the beach in Brigantine, Sunday, July 2, 2017. (Lori M. Nichols | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) This story was originally published August ...

As scallop season gets underway in France’s Brittany region, let us look at some innovative ways on how to “upcycle” the shells of this mollusk, thanks to its composition featuring high rates of ...

Scallops' soft bodies are well-protected by their hard shells, so … could those same shells protect human heads? That question was asked by the Japanese designers of the Shellmet, which is a helmet ...