Q. My son and I often find cone-shaped shells attached to shells and debris on the beach. The attached shells are all sizes and some are quite large. They are mostly white or white-ish purple with an ...

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 ...

Almost every jewelry store in Hawai‘i sells puka-shell necklaces, but very few people know where these puka shells come from! Hawai‘i is very unique because we have large surf that crashes directly ...

Everything from historic ships to World War II mines have washed ashore on the Outer Banks, but the National Park Service says it is stumped by a bit of beach debris found recently by a curious park ...