Sanibel-Captiva - Island Reporter, Islander and Current

Shell museum to present first lecture in series

The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium on Sanibel will kick off its 2026 Season Lecture Series at the museum, ...
Yahoo

Shell Week: 'A place most visitors never see.' Behind the scenes at Sanibel's Shell Museum

Jose H. Leal, Ph.D. Science Director & Curator of the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium stands for a portrait with some of the massive shell collection on Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. The ...
The Southern Maryland Chronicle on MSN

Rare Miocene fossils join CMM holdings

Longtime fossil collector Barry Norbeck donated thousands of shells and other invertebrate fossils to the Calvert Marine ...
Newsweek

Thought Lost for 40 Years, ‘Globally Important’ Captain Cook Finds Reappear

A "globally important" shell collection from the 18th century, thought to have been lost for more than 40 years, has resurfaced. The collection contains more than 200 specimens—among them rare ...
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 ...