TOKYO >> Hills of white scallop shells were piling up in Yubetsu, a town facing the Sea of Okhotsk in Hokkaido. They looked like out-of-season snow mounds. The shells blanketed every free space on a ...

A metal detectorist has discovered a strange Viking Age grave in Norway with scallop shells covering the mouth of the skeleton, raising questions about its symbolism. Archaeologists are perplexed ...

With scallop season is underway in Citrus and Hernando Counties, a group in Homosassa is encouraging scallopers not to dump the shells in the river, saying it's harmful. However, some locals don't ...

The grave looked, at first, like a familiar Viking Age burial: a woman laid to rest with care, surrounded by objects meant to speak for her in death. Then archaeologists brushed away the soil around ...

Usami and his team are now transforming discarded shells into a new material called Shellstic—like plastic, but with about 20% to 50% shells. After one year of development, the first major product to ...

Have you ever held a handful of scallop shells and wondered why they are colored differently? Or where the holes in a clam shell came from? And what is a mermaid's purse, exactly? Here's a fun guide ...

BOSTON---Collecting pretty seashells is more than a vacation pastime for scientists from the University of Michigan and Ohio State University, whose analyses of scallop shells are filling gaps in ...

PLYMOUTH - Large scallop shells rolled into Plymouth Friday for an outdoor unveiling at the Plymouth Area Chamber of Commerce. Artists and sponsors were on hand to view the monumental mollusks and ...