Already famed as Earth's first tool-using marine mammals, the bottlenose dolphins of Australia's Shark Bay have proved handy yet again, by using conch shells to trap tasty fish, then shaking them into ...

Dolphins in one western Australian population have been observed holding a large conch shell in their beaks and using it to shake a fish into their mouths — and the behavior may be spreading.

This story originally appeared in Hakai Magazine and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the blue and white skiff cuts across the bay to Naguabo on the eastern tip of Puerto Rico, fisherman ...

A new report shows that no-take zones in Belize can not only help economically valuable species such as lobster, conch, and fish recover from overfishing, but may also help re-colonize nearby reef ...

FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Tereha Davis, whose family has fished for conch from waters around the Bahamas for five generations, remembers when she could walk into the water from the beach and pick up ...

The animal and plant worlds have inspired scientists for ages, and scientists have long been interested in why certain organisms are resilient to impact. Think of a woodpecker’s skull and beak, the ...

Many fish for other species, such as snapper, but identify first as conch fishers. And for many, fishing is both a family tradition and a ticket to middle class life on the chain of islands, where the ...