You walk along the beach these days and it looks fairly empty compared to the summer; no more crowds, few dogs, even the wrack line is sparse. But here and there are clusters of washed up shells, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Officials are worried about the veined rapa whelk’s impact on native shellfish in the Chesapeake Bay. Scientists worry about the invasion of the veined rapa whelk, an Asian species first found in ...

Hari Cameron grasped the creature in his hand and reached for a beat-up old hammer. A hammer isn’t typically found in a chef's kitchen, but then again, Cameron isn’t like most chefs. He delivered a ...

The rare surviving Olympia oysters of Tomales Bay, once an integral part of the Indian diet and a staple during the San Francisco Gold Rush, are being wiped out by voracious alien snails. Half of the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. FISHERMAN CARL BERG unloads containers of whelks from a fishing vessel at a ...

LITTLE COMPTON, R.I. >> Cooking a channeled whelk is not for the squeamish. But sliced and sprinkled over a bed of linguine, it’s a chewy delicacy in old-fashioned Italian eateries along the East ...

The history of oyster harvesting in Marin dates back to the gold rush, when hungry 49ers looked for the tasty Olympia oyster in Tomales Bay. Because the oysters were so small, it took 1,600 to 2,000 ...