Jace Tunnell is the Director of Community Engagement for the Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.

It's hard to go to any beach without looking for a treasure or two in the sand. Florida's coastline is full of shells both rare and common. While seashell hunters can travel far and wide to scour good ...

Last week, I wrote about pelicans, the biggest birds on Sanibel Island, Fla., so this week, I decided to focus on something smaller. Sanibel locals, as well as island visitors, take collecting of ...

OFF THE COAST OF ANNA MARIA ISLAND -- By the time turtles are ready to lay their eggs and children are ready to hunt for Easter eggs, Coquina Beach should be clear of the spectacle of heavy equipment ...

Imagine, through an evolutionary twist of fate, a convention called “The Greatest Osteology Show” on Earth that caters to discerning and casual soft-bodied molluscs. Visiting invertebrates converge ...

People often ask me what living shell they can find along our strands to show their kids. While many seashells live and work some distance from shore, there is one you can see right in the wade zone, ...

The Coquina Shell not only provides housing for the mollusk; it has provided a basis for housing for people since Colonial times. The shells are crushed and mixed with sand and water. It is then ...

Think of the beach. Imagine a sandy shoreline covered with shells. The sun bakes down; rain falls and endless waves pound the shoreline. All this thrashing and crashing of water upon sand eventually ...

At first I thought men had poured cement onto the beach. Protection against an encroaching sea, I figured. The waves had scoured it good, brushing tresses into it. I walked south a ways, shaking my ...