Snails have a reputation for being slow, with poor eyes that can barely see the world around them. But conch snails defy these expectations with eyesight as good as some vertebrates. These marine ...

The best ideas are usually found in nature, and it turns out that holds true for protecting our bodies from injury. A research team at MIT recently unlocked the secret to the strength of conch shells ...

Conch, unearthed in cave in Pyrenees in 1931, had been carefully drilled and shaped to make music A 17,000-year-old conch shell that lay forgotten for more than 80 years in a museum collection has ...