Shelling doesn’t really have a season – whether winter or summer, seashells still wash ashore. But if you ask anyone who enjoys shelling as a hobby, they’ll typically recommend the fall and winter ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Santa Barbara boasts an array of unique traditions, such as Old Spanish Days and Solstice. It can even take credit for Earth ...

A version of this story was originally published in 2023. Before you hit the Jersey Shore this summer, it may be wise to think twice if you happen upon a massive whelk shell on the beach that your kid ...

On September 28, about 400 guests enjoyed Sips & Ships, an annual event of the Santa Barbara Sea Shell Association (SBSSA) to raise funds for its family-run youth sailing program. The sprawling event ...

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 ...

One mother affectionately calls it “a mass of pandemonium” — dozens of families meeting at Santa Barbara Harbor to rig their sailboats, prepare their skippers and sail to the beach for their weekly ...

JUNO BEACH — Samantha Deeter found one of the world's rarest shells on the Juno Beach seashore, and she didn't even know it. Deeter, a pharmacy operations manager from North Palm Beach, was seashell ...

A woman says strange green worm-like critters emerged from a sea shell she found in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Screengrab from Facebook post by Angela York Kracht. “Dozens and dozens” of green worm ...

A rare purple sea snail (Janthina) washes ashore in San Deigo. Scientists reveal its floating bubble-raft lifestyle, striking violet colour and how ocean currents unexpectedly carried it to the beach.