If lucky, that's where you may find a beached tellin shell, complete with every color you saw after the storm. Tellins are a big, worldwide family of shells, and like many clans, they have ...

Many shells carry so many alternate common names ... Tellins, too, carry numerous common names. White-crested tellin doesn't mind if you call it Pandora's box. Here's an easier one: Great tellin ...

To sense food, cone shells filter water through a tubelike organ called a siphon, awaiting a whiff of the telltale chemicals emitted by their prey. Then, when its victim comes near, the cone shell ...

Octopus filmed firing stones from her siphon from inside a clam shell like a sniper in never-before-seen behavior captured for the Netflix series Our Oceans. When you purchase through links on our ...