KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — A woman who plays the French Horn in the Royal Canadian Navy took top honors in Key West’s 58th annual Conch Shell Blowing Contest Saturday. Alliszon Zaichkowski of Victoria, ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - Every evening at sunset, a unique sound fills the air in Saint Andrews. It’s the call of the conch, a tradition kept alive by Mary Lou Race, affectionately known as the ...

Several dozen fans of the fluted, pink-lined conch shell displayed their pucker power Saturday during Key West’s 58th annual ConchShell Blowing Contest in the Florida Keys. When the “conch honk” ...

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In 1931, archaeologists discovered a conch shell—then assumed to be a drinking vessel—in the Marsoulas Cave, famous for its long history of sheltering early humans and providing a trove of artifacts, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — A large conch shell ...

Key West is known for its live music offerings, from funky bars and boat jam sessions to high-profile rock shows. But in this case, the instrument came out of the ocean. The 58th annual Conch Shell ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oddly shaped conch shells found at Neolithic archaeological sites dating back 6,000 years could have served as technology for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This combination of photos provided by researcher Carole Fritz in February 2021 shows two sides of a 12-inch (31 cm) conch shell ...

A large conch shell overlooked in a museum for decades is now thought to be the oldest known seashell instrument — and it still works, producing a deep, plaintive bleat, like a foghorn from the ...