More than 2,000 years after an artist in ancient China picked up a brush and a clam shell, researchers are getting the first glimpse at what they actually painted. Clams were eaten by people of the ...

The snail’s shell diameter averages about 22 to 30 millimeters (.87 to 1.18 inches). Each snail’s shell has a unique combination of stripes and colors, so no two are exactly alike. These snails eat ...

You knew they were tasty. But did you know crabs were art? At least they are in the hands of a few area painters. They take those hard, pointy, colorful outer shells, the ones that usually get rolled ...

Well, it was about time I painted some more shells. I have no excuse as to why it took so long, but now I’m looking at some of these larger shells I have left over from our Florida days in a new way.

WASHINGTON - Apparently, it wasn't so much the artwork itself that puzzled Customs inspectors at Dulles International Airport earlier this month, it was where the paint had been applied: to the shells ...

An Orlando wildlife refuge center is trying to spread the word about two gopher tortoises that were found with their shells covered in paint. One was found in Pine Hills and the other was found, weak ...

The pounding could be heard on the bottom level of the Anita C. Leight Estuary Center as children used mortars and pestles to break down seashells and grind them into powder to use as paints. Five ...

An illegally painted gopher turtle. The FWC is asking Floridians to remember that it is illegal to paint turtle shells because it is harmful to the animal. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation ...