A conch shell -- the hardened exoskeleton of a predatory sea snail -- lay empty at the mouth of a cave the men knew was once used by human ancestors in the late Stone Age. But, as exceptional as ...

Saturday's Key West's "Conch Honk" ended with a tie in ... Rock," alternating between large and miniature shells while wearing glittery glasses like those favored by John. "I tried to pick a ...

Conch shells "have this really unique architecture ... "This has stiffness, like glass or ceramics," Buehler says, but it lacks the brittleness of those materials, thanks to the integration ...

Some large conch shells were kept whole as decorations ... enamel paint or held in elaborate metal frames. A shell-shaped cranberry-glass watch holder with enameled decorations was auctioned ...

Glass-bodied lamps filled with bleached scallop shells and sand dollars; a pink-lipped conch shell; framed shell lithographs; tiny coquinas in the car ashtray: My mother, an avid collector ...