Archaeologists have managed to get near-perfect sounds out of a musical instrument that's more than 17,000 years old. It's a conch shell that was found in a hunter-gatherer cave in southern France.

The horse conch has been Florida's official state shell since 1969. According to the Florida Museum of Natural History, "the predatory Horse Conch can grow to 24 inches long," making it the ...

Archaeologists have managed to get near-perfect notes out of a musical instrument that's more than 17,000 years old. It's a conch shell that was found in a hunter-gatherer cave in southern France.

Hermit crabs are omnivorous scavengers, eating microscopic mussels and clams, bits of dead animals ... coming partly out of their shells so the male can transfer a sperm packet to the female ...