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.

Few countries are as synonymous with a seafood as the Bahamas is with conch. Queen conch, the key food species, is a marine snail that reaches up to a foot in length and can live for 30 years. The ...

For 20 years, a mother’s violent murder remained unsolved without any new suspects — until one of the weapons used in her killing — a conch shell — was tested for DNA. The inside of this conch shell ...