A Canadian woman and a pediatric cardiologist from Georgia won the men's and women's contests at Key West's annual Conch Shell Blowing Contest, using different techniques to impress Saturday's judges.

Mager, a 35-year-old Key West resident, likens playing a conch shell to playing a brass instrument. P >Judges evaluated contest entrants, who ranged from less than 3 years old to seniors, on the ...

Archaeologists working in northeastern Spain say a cache of conch shells was not just decorative debris from ancient shorelines but a set of carefully modified instruments that once filled Neolithic ...