A new article published today in the journal Oryx examines the efficacy and perception of queen conch (Aliger gigas) conservation aquaculture – cultivating aquatic organisms to manage or replenish ...

The ocean is full of surprises, with one of them being the abilities of the big-eyed conch snail. Usually, snails are thought of as slow-moving creatures that have poor eyesight-but conch snails are ...

Two eyes peek out from under the shell of a queen conch sitting on the seafllor. Queen conch are giant herbivorous marine snails that do not crawl slowly along and leave slime trails. Instead, conch ...

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 marine snails from the ...