They are usually sold already cooked and shelled and can be eaten with a sprinkling of vinegar or with slices of bread and butter. The chewy flesh is quite juicy and salty. They’re available ...

This cozy, upscale waterfront Westport seafood bar always fulfills its promise of the freshest local oysters (don’t miss the ...

Their flavour is best if they're bought alive and cooked when very fresh. Oysters, mussels, clams, whelks and winkles are sold live or cooked; scallops are sold ready-prepared (with the intestines ...

Instead, hermit crabs have a hard exoskeleton on the front part of their bodies but a soft tail on the other half, which they protect using the discarded shells of other animals, like whelks.

A MAN has been rescued from the water by an American golfer after he got into difficulty while searching for whelks near the Old Course in St Andrews. A golfing caddie raised the alarm after ...

I found a variety of treasures, including pen shells, pear whelks, and hundreds of Atlantic cockles. We’re still seeing large numbers of shells on certain beaches due to the storm surge from ...