Scientists analyzing a conch shell believed to be the oldest wind instrument of its type in the world have released a recording of what it would have sounded like. The shell was largely overlooked ...

On the island where I grew up, there was a unique sound that signaled the arrival of the morning.It was the sound of a conch shell, blown by the crew of the ferry as they headed toward the boarding ...

After 18,000 years of silence, an ancient musical instrument played its first notes. The last time anyone heard a sound from the conch shell trumpet, thick sheets of ice still covered most of Europe.

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

ST. ANDREWS, Fla. (WMBB) – Grab your conch shells and get ready for a celebration at Little Village on Saturday for its 5th ...

Archaeologists working in northeastern Spain say a cache of conch shells was not just decorative debris from ancient shorelines but a set of carefully modified instruments that once filled Neolithic ...

Some 18,000 years ago, in a cave in what we now call France, a human being left behind something precious: a conch shell. It was not just any conch shell. Its tip had been lopped off—unlikely by ...

The seashell has been collecting dust on a museum shelf in Toulouse for the past 80 years, and before that, it had spent all of recorded history, plus a few millennia, on the floor of a cave in the ...

Conch-shell blowers took to the stage to compete in St Andrews on Sept. 19. The tradition honors conch blower Bill Tant, aka “Cap’n Scuba." ...