A string of whelk egg cases stood out like a golden necklace on the beach among the litter of broken pieces of crabs and skate egg cases this weekend. Some of the yellow egg capsules had little round ...

And, in a way, it was. This was the egg case of the common whelk, a snail that grows up to 4 inches tall and more than 2 inches wide. The object consisted of several hundred egg capsules stuck ...

Things could be worse for those of you of the male persuasion who don't wear the pants in the family. You could be a marine whelk snail. The male whelk, known to scientists as Solenosteira macrospira, ...

The long, white strand is actually an egg case belonging to a carnivorous sea snail, known as a lightning whelk. (Padre Island National Seashore/KSAT) Don’t be fooled -- though the image above may ...

This lightning whelk egg case was found on a Texas beach. Padre Island National Seashore/Facebook Screengrab A “cryptic object” was found washed up on a Texas beach, officials said. “What is this ...

One person called it a "fancy nope rope." However unnerving as it may appear, the strange item is actually a lightning whelk egg case. For those unfamiliar, a lightning whelk happens to be the state ...

Delaware has a state bird, a state bug and a state fish. But until last year, there was no state sea shell. Then, 13-year-old Allyson Willis, a seventh-grader at Redding Middle School, came along and ...