An 8-year-old girl from Las Vegas found a rare junonia shell while on vacation in Fort Myers Beach. Ella Cline and her family did not realize the shell's significance until visiting the ...

An expert from the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum has compiled a list of rare shells found in Florida. The popular and rare Junonia shell was intentionally excluded from this particular list. A ...

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — A new local effort is turning restaurant leftovers into a powerful tool for cleaner water. Oyster shells from The Breakersand Cod & Capers Seafood are getting a second life — ...

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Oyster shells from The Breakers and Cod & Capers Seafood are helping restore the Lake Worth Lagoon through a new recycling and restoration program led by the Palm Beach County Fishing Foundation.

Strong winds from a low pressure system over North Carolina's Outer Banks wreaked more havoc on Oct. 28, flooding the island chain's only highway in several locations and collapsing another five ...

A vehicle fire closed a portion of Shell Beach Road in Shell Beach late Friday afternoon. The fire was reported at around 3:41 p.m. near Spyglass Drive and the entrance to Dolphin Bay Resort & Spa, ...

A winter storm rolled through Florida and turned a quiet beach into something out of a dream or a natural disaster movie. Millions of shells washed up overnight, covering the sand like confetti from ...

Beaches in some areas of the Outer Banks remain closed due to damage caused by two dual hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean. The entire beachfront from the north end of the village of Buxton to off-road ...

Palm Beach County Fishing Foundation Executive Director Tom Twyford said the program aims to improve the water quality and clarity of the lagoon by giving local oysters a new habitat. Oyster shells ...

We need to protect beauty. We need to display the shells we love. Shells help us feel like millionaires, writes Christopher de Vinck. iStock / Getty Images John Moffitt was a friend of mine. He was ...