A string of whelk egg cases stood out like a golden necklace on the beach among the litter of broken pieces of crabs and skate egg cases this weekend. Some of the yellow egg capsules had little round ...

And, in a way, it was. This was the egg case of the common whelk, a snail that grows up to 4 inches tall and more than 2 inches wide. The object consisted of several hundred egg capsules stuck ...

Things could be worse for those of you of the male persuasion who don't wear the pants in the family. You could be a marine whelk snail. The male whelk, known to scientists as Solenosteira macrospira, ...

Pity the male of the marine whelk, Solenosteira macrospira. He does all the work of raising the young, from egg-laying to hatching -- even though few of the baby snails are his own. Throw in extensive ...

Strange “snake skeletons” recently found coiled up on Outer Banks beaches have been identified not as animal remains, but as egg casings, according to the National Park Service. What kind of animal ...

SANIBEL, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida beachgoers are raising their eyebrows after an influx of strange and “mysterious spiral-shaped stuff” started washing up along the shorelines from Sanibel to Marco ...

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 ...