Florida wildlife officials are investigating what they say is the illegal harvest of nearly 300 queen conchs from waters off ...

A bald patch of grass in someone’s front yard can be restored by spreading seed or strips of sod. But when seagrass in shallow ocean water gets shredded by a […] ...

The 291 empty shells of the federally protected mollusks were found at a rental house on Shoreline Road in Key Haven, a small ...

Three highly-publicized cases had the attention of Keys law enforcement agencies in the week following Independence Day. Hundreds of conch harvested illegally The FWC is investigating a significant ...

A marine preserve in the Bahamas famed for its abundance of queen conchs and intended to help keep the country's population thriving is missing something: young conchs Published August 11, 2017 ...

The state’s flamboyantly pink queen conchs are not having enough sex. Warming seas and wild swings in temperature have shut down their reproductive impulses. To help them get in the mood ...

The queen of the sea, a monster mollusk that inspired its own republic in Florida but now is as likely to be found in a frying pan or a gift shop as the ocean floor, is in trouble.

If the conch embryos survive, they will hatch in four days. In 40 years of growing queen conchs, Davis has learned that the larvae tend to wriggle from their eggs at about 9:00 at night.

A woman was caught in Key West with five queen conchs with live animals still inside on May 30, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife conservation.

A Texas tourist who collected 40 queen conchs seashells from Key West, Florida, is going to jail for 15 days. A Florida judge also sentenced Diana Fiscal-Gonzalez of Dallas to serve six months of ...

Florida’s queen conch have seen their population nosedive in recent years. This experiment could help.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission associate research scientist Gabriel Delgado holds a milk crate full of Queen Conchs for transportation to deeper waters where the snails have a ...