Pat D'Angelo, of North Wildwood, poses for a picture by a set of wings made by Chris Pohle, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019. The display is located at 7th Street and JFK Boulevard in North Wildwood. (Tim Hawk ...

A large conch shell that had been languishing in a museum for decades has been revealed as the oldest known seashell instrument after archaeologists examined it more closely and realized belatedly ...

Now you can hear a marine-inspired melody from before the time of the Little Mermaid’s hot crustacean band. Acoustic scientists put their lips to ancient conch shells to figure out how humans used ...

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 ...

(CN) — Scientists have concluded that an ancient conch shell recovered from the renowned painted Marsoulas cave in the Pyrenees mountains is the earliest wind instrument of its kind on record and ...

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Conch, unearthed in cave in Pyrenees in 1931, had been carefully drilled and shaped to make music A 17,000-year-old conch shell that lay forgotten for more than 80 years in a museum collection has ...