In “The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans,” Cynthia Barnett presents us with a glittering Wunderkammer for our age, a staggeringly varied history — scientific, cultural, ...

Why do seashells make a sound like the ocean when you put them to your ear? – Remy, age 9, Wangaratta, Victoria Thanks for the great question Remy! My kids and I have collected a lot of seashells and ...

Music from the large conch probably hadn’t been heard by human ears for 17,000 years. By Katherine Kornei In 1931, researchers working in southern France unearthed a large seashell at the entrance to ...

One hundred thousand years ago, a human cousin walked a rock- ribbed beach along the Mediterranean Sea, her head lowered and her large eyes scanning the shoreline. Now and again she stopped, bent her ...