A shell collection featuring specimens gathered during Captain Cook's ill-fated third and final voyage has come to light after being rescued from a skip 40 years ago. The enormous collection was ...

Bridget Atkinson built this collection. Born in 1732, Atkinson and her sister were raised at Kirkoswald by their widowed mother, who taught them how to write and sent them to study homemaking in ...

In the late 1700s, a woman collected over a thousand seashells from all over the world. The collection was believed to be lost for decades, until they were saved from the garbage in the 1980s. In the ...

A 'globally important' shell collection rescued from a skip containing gems from Captain Cook’s third voyage will go on show from today in Northumberland, England, after they were believed to have ...

Massillon Museum showing off suffrage leader Ella O. Shoemaker's historic collection of shells in new exhibit.

In the 1980s, a trove of rare shells—some of which had been collected on a famed 18th-century voyager’s doomed final expedition—was tossed in a dumpster at Newcastle University in England during an ...

The Junonia is a coveted shell found off the coasts of Florida. It is distinguished by its attractive brownish spots. The shell is part of the Volutidae family. Note to readers: This is Part 3 in a ...

AN extraordinary collection of sea shells from around the world, gathered together by an 18th century Cumbrian woman who never left the country, is to go on public display for the first time in more ...

Harry Lee has spent seven decades traveling the world collecting shells — and even found one unknown to science in his own back yard In his basement office Harry Lee, a retired Jacksonville doctor, ...

Enter the doors of Delaware Museum of Natural History and you are surrounded by towering skeletons of prehistoric beasts, a wall of eggs from around the world and even a giant squid overhead. Take a ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A special shell collection is up for bid on Oahu. A family from St. Louis Heights is putting their enormous shell collection up for sale. Judi Breisch said her father ...