Pasco County is finalizing preparations for its upcoming bay scallop season, which is officially scheduled to run for 40 days ...

Scalloping enthusiasts are hitting state waters as harvesting windows open for the popular marine activity across several ...

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 ...

The grave looked, at first, like a familiar Viking Age burial: a woman laid to rest with care, surrounded by objects meant to speak for her in death. Then archaeologists brushed away the soil around ...

A metal detectorist in central Norway recently discovered a Viking Age metal brooch. But when he led archaeologists to the site, they found much more: a burial with evidence of an unusual ritual they ...

Every birth date carries a seashell archetype that mirrors your spiritual path and inner evolution.

Florida bay scallop season has started, and seafood lovers from across the Sunshine State are already venturing off the coasts of Taylor and Dixie counties, where recreational harvesting is permitted ...

Airplane wings that don't ice up or solar cells that generate electricity even in winter - ice-free surfaces are important for many applications. A team of scientists has now studied an Antarctic ...

Whenever anyone talks about ocean acidification, they discuss vanishing corals and other shelled organisms. But these aren’t the only organisms affected—the organisms that interact with these ...

Every inch of me, at least the parts not covered with waterproof gear, has become soaked with rain. My jeans, my shoes, my socks, my will to live. The drizzle barely qualifies as a storm, but as we ...

Metal pollution from historic mining appears to be weakening scallop shells and threatening marine ecosystems in an area off the coast of the Isle of Man, a major new study suggests. The research, led ...

Usami and his team are now transforming discarded shells into a new material called Shellstic—like plastic, but with about 20% to 50% shells. After one year of development, the first major product to ...