The Advocate

Paintings and the seashells that inspired them on display at Baton Rouge museum

Garcia left his childhood shell collection behind when he moved to Lafayette in 1965. So, he started a new collection, his self-taught expertise earning him spots in international scientific research ...
Santa Cruz Sentinel

Rachel Kippen, Our Ocean Backyard | Santa Cruz museum teaches history through the stories of seashells

You’re in good company if you’ve combed the shoreline for shells, marveled at the glinting, microscopic pieces that make up the sand, or held a snail shell up to your ear listening for the ocean or ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Shells From Captain Cook’s Final Voyage Were Rescued From a Dumpster

In the 1980s, a trove of rare shells—some of which had been collected on a famed 18th-century voyager’s doomed final expedition—was tossed in a dumpster at Newcastle University in England during an ...
The Independent

Shells from Captain Cook’s third voyage are saved from skip by passing lecturer

An 18th century shell collection from Captain James Cook’s third voyage, thought lost for more than 40 years, has been returned to English Heritage after being saved from a skip in “nothing short of a ...
The Northern Echo

Shells from Captain Cook’s third voyage saved from skip

An 18th-century shell collection from Captain James Cook’s third voyage thought lost for more than 40 years, has been returned to English Heritage after being saved from a skip in “nothing short of a ...