Secretion of different kinds of proteins at different times and places in the seashells seems to direct the type of calcium carbonate crystal formed. Calcified bone or shell of turtles, ...

How many different kinds of seashells are there? No one can say for sure. Tens of thousands of mollusks are known to science and there are certainly far, far more out there waiting to be ...

When I visited Mauritius as a child on family holidays I would see plenty of seashells on the beaches. But on my return to the archipelago to cover stories about the effects of climate change, the ...

This is not surprising for 14-year-old old climate change activist Anesh Mungur, who says he has hardly seen any seashells in his lifetime. "I think it's really sad that the shells are disappearing.

This is not surprising for 14-year-old old climate change activist Anesh Mungur, who says he has hardly seen any seashells in his lifetime. "I think it's really sad that the shells are disappearing.

When I visited Mauritius as a child on family holidays I would see plenty of seashells on the beaches. But on my return to the archipelago to cover stories about the effects of climate change, the ...

Others are so different in grownup guise that even experts mistake them for altogether different shell species. On average, it takes a seashell from one to six years to reach full size and ...