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FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Tereha Davis, whose family has fished for conch from waters around the Bahamas for five generations, remembers when she could walk into the water from the beach and pick up ...

One hundred thousand years ago, a human cousin walked a rock- ribbed beach along the Mediterranean Sea, her head lowered and her large eyes scanning the shoreline. Now and again she stopped, bent her ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Today’s conch prize, however, is not the sliced white flesh heaped in the first ...

A husband and wife returning from a week-long cruise in the Caribbean thought they’d bring back souvenirs in the form of conch shells, corals and sea urchins, according to federal agents. U.S. Customs ...

A conch shell found in a cave used by the Magdalenian people of the late Upper Palaeolithic was originally thought to be a cup, but a new analysis suggests they used it as a kind of horn. That would ...

Seen in the Bahamas, a Queen Conch—a large marine mollusk native to the Caribbean and Florida. The Queen Conch is imperiled by overfishing. Credit: Photo by Carolyn Belak, courtesy of Shedd Aquarium ...

This story was supported by funding from the Walton Family Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content. FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Tereha Davis, whose family has fished for conch from ...