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 ...

DNA collected from inside a conch shell, a weapon used in the alleged fatal bludgeoning of a Massachusetts woman in 2001, led to the murder indictment of her half-brother, officials said. David Reed, ...

For 20 years, a mother’s violent murder remained unsolved without any new suspects — until one of the weapons used in her killing — a conch shell — was tested for DNA. The inside of this conch shell ...