It is good to leave the empty cone shells out on the reef because they sometimes become homes to the hermit crabs. Hermit crabs do not make their own shells, so they crawl into empty shells they find ...

Thousands of people here in Hawai‘i and around the world wear this shell around their neck, but few people have ever seen a live textile cone shell. The famous puka shells are made by the large surf ...

Cone shell is one gastropod whose reputation as underwater warrior definitely precedes its popularity as a real looker. For hundreds of years, collectors have risked life and limb, literally, for the ...