Do you know Georgia’s official state seashell? It’s the shell of the knobbed whelk, a large sea snail common in coastal waters along the state’s seashore. Its beautiful, spiraled shell is a familiar ...

The whelk’s robust shell is a yellow–to-brown color, whorled and ridged in spirals. Often it’s hard to tell the exact color of a shell because algae or barnacles cover it. After studying several ...

BERKELEY TOWNSHIP — A mountain of shells lay along the western shore of Barnegat Bay. They're being transported by barge and placed at a location off Good Luck Point, just a few hundred feet from the ...

This story was originally published August 2017. Maybe collecting shells is a favorite pastime of yours, but you don’t know which is a moon snail and which is a mud snail. Or, you’re walking along the ...

Delaware has a state bird, a state bug and a state fish. But until last year, there was no state sea shell. Then, 13-year-old Allyson Willis, a seventh-grader at Redding Middle School, came along and ...

We observed heavy trematode infections of whelks, Buccinum undatum, from the Mingan Islands, eastern Canada, by larval stages of a species of Neophasis. Only sexually mature whelks were infected, 23% ...