How are seashells created? Or any other shell, such as a snail’s or a turtle’s?

Francis Horne, a biologist who studies shell formation at Texas State University, offers this answer. The exoskeletons of snails and clams, or their shells in common parlance, differ from the endoskeletons of turtles in several ways. Seashells are the exoskeletons of mollusks such as snails, clams, oysters and many others. Such shells have three distinct … Read more

Wikipedia

Conch Conch (/kɒŋk, kɒntʃ/)[1] is a common name of a number of different medium-to-large-sized sea snails. Conch shells typically have a high spire and a noticeable siphonal canal (in other words, the shell comes to a noticeable point at both ends). In North America, a conch is often identified as a queen conch, indigenous to … Read more

Seashells expert guide: what are they, where do they come from, and how are they made?

Seashells expert guide: what are they, where do they come from, and how are they made? Every shell was once part of a living sea creature. But what are they? How are they formed? And what animals use them? Our expert guide has the answers A day at the beach isn’t complete without a sandcastle … Read more

Conch

There are more than 60 different species of conch (pronounced “konk”) in our oceans. The queen conch, Lobatus gigas, is the most common and economically important in the Caribbean. Queen conch dwell in warm, shallow waters from Florida and Bermuda to Brazil and have permeated Caribbean culture and cuisine like few other animals. Most people … Read more