KEY WEST — Making music with a conch (pronounced "konk") shell might seem unusual, but several dozen people tried it during the weekend's annual Conch Shell Blowing Contest in the Florida Keys.

The Florida horse conch population—one of the world's largest invertebrate animals—is shrinking. Established in 1969 as the Florida state shell with a record length of two feet, it has become symbolic ...

MARATHON, Florida Keys – A conch living underwater in the Florida Keys agreed with groundhog Punxsutawney Phil's prediction of six more weeks of winter. The "mollusk meteorologist" emerged from its ...

A Texas tourist who collected 40 queen conchs seashells from Key West, Florida, is going to jail for 15 days. A Florida judge also sentenced Diana Fiscal-Gonzalez of Dallas to serve six months of ...